coruscant

English

Etymology

From Latin coruscāns (“glittering”), present participle of coruscō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹʌskənt/

Adjective

coruscant (comparative more coruscant, superlative most coruscant)

1. Emitting flashes of light; glittering.
   • 1950, Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky, Tor, page 71:

     It had not the unbearable glory of the skies of the Central Worlds, where star elbowed star in such blinding competition that the black of night was nearly lost in a coruscant explosion of light.

French

Etymology

From Latin coruscantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁys.kɑ̃/

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Adjective

coruscant (feminine coruscante, masculine plural coruscants, feminine plural coruscantes)

1. coruscant

Further reading

• “coruscant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [kɔˈrʊs̠kän̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrus.kant/, [koˈruskän̪t̪]

Verb

coruscant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of coruscō