barlume
Italian
Etymology
From lume (“light source”), prefixed with bar-, itself derived from bis-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /barˈlu.me/
- Rhymes: -ume
- Hyphenation: bar‧lù‧me
Noun
barlume m (plural barlumi)
- glimmer, flicker
- Synonyms: raggio, spiraglio, accenno, parvenza, indizio, filo, minimo
- 2019, George Orwell, Nicola Gardini, transl., Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Pensava più spesso a O'Brien, con un barlume di speranza.
- He thought oftener of O’Brien, with a flickering hope.
- (literally, “He thought more often of O'Brien, with a glimmer of hope.”)
- 2012, John Green, Giorgia Grilli, transl., Colpa delle Stelle [The Fault in our Stars], Mondadori, page 44:
- Data la futilità finale dei nostri sforzi, l'effimero barlume di significato che l'arte ci regala ha forse un valore?
- Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable?
- (literally, “Given the final futility of our efforts, does the ephemeral glimmer of meaning that art gifts us maybe have a value?”)
Anagrams
- brumale, umbrale