# luminare
## Aromanian
### Noun

luminare f
* Alternative form of luminari

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lu.miˈna.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: lu‧mi‧nà‧re

### Etymology 1

From Late Latin lūmināre (“star” ← “light” ← “opening that lets light in”).

#### Noun

luminare m (plural luminari)
* (obsolete) a shining heavenly body (especially said of the Sun and the Moon)
** 1754, Niccolò Maria Bona, “Panegirico in onore de' SS. Cosma, e Damiano [Panegyric in honor of St. Cosmas and Damian]”, in Panegirici ed orazioni [Panegyrics and Prayers]‎, Venice: Giovanni Tevernin, page 89:maraviglia non è, ſe fino da' primieri lor anni […] ſì ſplendidamente eſſi folgoreggiaſſero, come i due luminari del Cieloit's no wonder that, ever since their early years, they were so magnificently blazing like the two lights of the sky [the Sun and the Moon]
* (figurative) one who has achieved success in their field; leading light, luminary
* (archaeology) a vertical opening in a catacomb meant to let light and air inside
* (obsolete, rare) illumination, luminary
    Synonyms: illuminazione, lume, luminaria

### Etymology 2

From Latin lūmināre (“to illuminate, brighten”).

#### Verb

luminàre (first-person singular present lùmino, first-person singular past historic luminài, past participle luminàto, auxiliary avére)
* (obsolete, transitive) to illuminate, lighten, light up
    Synonym: illuminare
    Antonyms: abbuiare, offuscare, oscurare
** c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, G. Laterza & Figli, published 1941, page 121:«O chiaro Febo, per cui luminato ¶ è tutto il mondo […] »"O bright Phoebus, by whom the whole world is lightened […] "
* (literary, rare, intransitive) to shine, glow [auxiliary avere]
    Synonym: risplendere
** 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Novelle della Pescara‎, published 2016, page 285:Una specie di mollezza esotica pareva spargersi nel tramonto. Sorgevano, nella fantasia popolare, le rive favoleggiate e luminavano.A sort of exotic softness seemed to be spreading in the sunset. In the popular imagination, the fantasized-upon coasts were rising and shining.

##### Conjugation
### Anagrams

* mulinare, mulinerà, numerali

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /luː.miˈnaː.re/, [ɫ̪uːmɪˈnäːrɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /lu.miˈna.re/, [lumiˈnäːre]

### Etymology 1

From lūmen (“light”) +‎ -āris.

#### Noun

lūmināre n (genitive lūmināris); third declension
* (literally) That which gives light; enlightener
* a window-shutter, window (that lets light in)
* (Late Latin, in the plural) light, lamp (such as those lighted in churches in honor of martyrs)
* (Late Latin, in the plural) A luminary; especially a heavenly body.

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | lūmināre | lūmināria |
| Genitive | lūmināris | lūminārium |
| Dative | lūminārī | lūmināribus |
| Accusative | lūmināre | lūmināria |
| Ablative | lūminārī | lūmināribus |
| Vocative | lūmināre | lūmināria |

##### Related terms

* lūmen
* lūminō
* lūminōsus

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: luminari, lunjinari
* Catalan: llumener, llumenera
* French: lumière
* Galician: lumieira
* Italian: luminare
* Occitan: lumniera
* Portuguese: lumieira, lumeeira
* Romanian: lumânare
* Romansch: glimera, glümera
* Spanish: lumbrera
* → English: luminaria
* → French: luminaire
* → Italian: luminaria
* → Occitan: lumenaria
* → Old French: luminarie
** → English: luminary
* → Portuguese: luminária
* → Spanish: luminar, luminaria

#### References

* “luminare”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* luminare in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lūmināre
* inflection of lūminō:
** present active infinitive
** second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

## Romanian
### Etymology

From lumina +‎ -re.

### Noun

luminare f (plural luminări)
* act of lighting, illuminating, shining