illustrius
Dictionary entries
- Entry →illustris, illustre, illustrior -or -us, illustrissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bright, shining, brilliant; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →illustre, illustrius, illustrissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
with clarity; clearly, distinctly, perspicuously (L+S);
Examples
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...genus, ut diximus, cum caste pudiceque ornatur, fit illustrius, cum fucatur atque praelinitur, fit praestigiosum. XV. Quam severe..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...torquet, quod matrem eius, illam — nihil possum illustrius dicere — tantae feminae matrem, rursus videor amittere, quam haec..."
