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“bright” in Latin
clārusclear, bright; renowned, famous, famed, distinguished, illustrious, celebrated, glorious; upstanding, respectedlūcidusclear, bright, shining, full of light; clear, perspicuous, lucidpellūcidustransparent, pellucid; very brightillūstrisbright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous, prominentlūminōsusbright, luminous, full of lightnitidusshining, polished, glittering; handsome, beautiful, good-looking; healthy-looking, well conditionedniteōto be radiant, shine, look bright, glitter, sparkle, glisten; to be sleek or in good condition; to look flourishing or tsplendidussplendid, bright, glittering; distinguished, noble, illustriousfulgeōto blaze, flash, lighten, glitter, gleam, glare, glisten, shine; to be resplendent, illustrious, conspicuous (thanks to serēnusClear, fair, bright, serene, tranquil.; That clears the sky or brings fair weather.; Cheerful, glad, joyous, bright; cle
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
bright
clarus (bright by nature: then also of what is clear to the understanding): lucidus (shining with a bright, pure light: opposed to obscurus): pellucidus (transparent; pellucid): illustris (existing in light; of a road, star, etc., Cic., Verr., 3, 94, 219): luminosus (having abundant light): nitidus, nitens (shining beautifully, with pure brightness): splendidus (shining with dazzling, splendid brightness): fulgens (blazing with fiery brightness; e.g., of a comet: opposed to sol nitidus): serenus (calm and cloudless: of bright skies and weather): perspicuus (transparent, of glass, etc.; then evident). Bright eyes, oculi vegeti, micantes, clari, radiantes, ardentes, etc. A fiery-bright comet, cometes fulgens, ardens. A bright constellation, clarum sidus. The sky hecomes bright, disserenascit: at dawn, lucescit, illucescit.
Make bright [Vid: BRIGHTEN]. To be bright, clarum, illustrem. etc., esse: clarere, lucere, collucere, nitere, splendere, micare, fulgere. To become bright, clarum, etc., fieri; clarescere, nitescere, splendescere. The brass is bright with use, aera nitent usu. Bright days (figuratively), dies laeti, candidi soles.
Illustrious, clarus, splendidus, illustris, magnificus, praeclarus. Bright deeds, magnificae res gestae, facta splendida. A bright name, nomen illustre. To be bright, splendere, fulgere, nitere, enitere, elucere.
Beautiful, nitidus, nitens.
Acute, ingenious, acutus, perspicax, sollers, ingeniosos. A man of bright parts, homo ingeniosus (et sollers), praestanti ingenio praeditus.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for bright?
- The usual Latin words for “bright” are clārus, lūcidus, pellūcidus; also illūstris, lūminōsus, nitidus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.