lugubre
See also: lúgubre
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ly.ɡybʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file)
Adjective
lugubre (plural lugubres)
- gloomy, mournful, lugubrious
Derived terms
- lugubrement
Further reading
- “lugubre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”), possibly a borrowing.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlu.ɡu.bre/
- Rhymes: -uɡubre
- Hyphenation: lù‧gu‧bre
Adjective
lugubre (plural lugubri)
- gloomy, dismal, lugubrious
Derived terms
- lugubremente
References
- lugubre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ɡu.bre/, [ˈɫ̪uːɡʊbrɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.ɡu.bre/, [ˈluːɡubre]
Adjective
lūgubre
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of lūgubris
References
- “lugubre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lugubre”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lugubre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
lugubre
- definite singular/plural of luguber
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
lugubre
- definite singular/plural of luguber