luminous

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Alternative forms

• luminious (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French lumineus, from Latin lūminōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːmɪnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

luminous (comparative more luminous, superlative most luminous)

1. Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.

   Synonyms: beamful, shining, radiant; see also Thesaurus:shining

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:

     The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.

   • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML CHAPTER 11].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:

     The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose-tan in his cheek.

2. Brightly illuminated.

   Synonyms: lighted, lit up; see also Thesaurus:illuminated

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. Clear; enlightening; easy to understand.

   a luminous explanation

Derived terms

• fast-evolving luminous transient
• hyperluminous
• luminosity
• luminous energy
• luminous flux
• luminous intensity
• luminously
• luminousness
• non-luminous
• nonluminous
• overluminous
• radio-luminous
• self-luminous
• subluminous
• superluminous
• transient luminous event
• ultraluminous
• underluminous
• unluminous

Related terms

• illuminate
• lumic
• luminal

Translations

emitting light; glowing brightly

Bashkir: яҡты (yaqtı) Bau Bidayuh: bidingiem Bulgarian: светещ (svetešt) Catalan: lluminós (ca) Esperanto: luma (eo) Finnish: valaiseva (fi), kirkas (fi), valovoimainen French: lumineux (fr) Galician: luminoso (gl) m Georgian: მნათობი (mnatobi), მნათი (mnati), მანათებელი (manatebeli), ნათელი (nateli) German: leuchtend (de) Greek: φωτεινός (el) (foteinós) Ancient: φωτεινός (phōteinós) Hebrew: בהיר (he) m (bahir), בּוֹהֵק m (boheq) Ido: lumoza (io) Indonesian: berkilau (id) Irish: lonrach Italian: luminoso (it) Latin: lūminōsus Malay: berkilau Ottoman Turkish: نورانی (nurani), ایشق (ışık) Portuguese: luminoso (pt) Romanian: luminos (ro) Russian: светя́щийся (ru) (svetjáščijsja), флюоресце́нтный (ru) (fljuorescéntnyj) Sanskrit: उज्ज्वल (sa) (ujjvala) Spanish: luminoso (es) Tamil: (please verify) ஒளிரும் (ta) (oḷirum) Tocharian B: perne Ukrainian: блискучий (uk) (blyskučyj) Welsh: goleuol

brightly illuminated

Bulgarian: светъл (bg) (svetǎl), осветен (bg) (osveten) Finnish: kirkkaasti valaistu Indonesian: berseri-seri (id), berserian Ottoman Turkish: ایشق (ışık) Russian: освещённый (ru) (osveščónnyj), я́ркий (ru) (járkij) Welsh: disglair (cy), llewychol

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French: (please verify) lumineux (fr) Italian: (please verify) luminoso (it)