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   Ru·ti·lant

   /ˈro͞odələnt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. glowing or glittering with red or golden light: literary "rutilant gems"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin rutilant- ‘glowing red’, from the verb rutilare, from rutilus ‘reddish’.

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   What does rutilant mean?

   • Did you know? Did you know? Rutilant, which first appeared in English late in the 15th century, is used in English today to describe anything with a reddish or fiery glow, such as a sunset or flushed skin. It derives from the Latin rutilus, meaning "ruddy," which is probably related to the Latin ruber, meaning "red."

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   What does RUTIL mean?

   • n. A lustrous red, reddish-brown, or black mineral, TiO2, used as a gemstone, as an ore, and in paints and fillers. [French, from German Rutil, from Latin rutilus, red; see rutilant .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

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   What does a rutilant look like?

   • glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light. rare. Standing against the wall and blinking at the rutilant glare of the room, Goliath the dwarf waited nervously. From the pit below came a rutilant groaning and sharp exclamations of pain and ecstasy. Rutilant definition: glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light..

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   When was rutilant first used?

   • The earliest known use of the adjective rutilant is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for rutilant is from before 1460, in Knyghthode and Bataile. rutilant is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rutilant-, rutilāns.

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   Etymology

   From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from Latin rutilantem, accusative masculine or feminine singular of rutilāns (“reddening”) (or directly from the latter), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)) + -āns (suffix forming the present active participle of first conjugation verbs). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante (literary), Portuguese...

   Pronunciation

   1. (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹuːtɪl(ə)nt/, /-tə-/ 2. (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹutələnt/, [-ɾə-] 3. Hyphenation: ru‧til‧ant

   Adjective

   rutilant (comparative more rutilant, superlative most rutilant) 1. (literary or sciences, also figurative) Shining or glowing with a red colour or light. 1.1. Synonym: rutilous 1.1. 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe,[…], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby][…], →OCLC, page 36: 1.1.1. [S]tately Hyperion or the lordly ſonne, the moſt rutilant planet of the ſeuẽ, in Lent when Heraliusherring enters into his chiefe reign and ſcepte...

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   Adjective

   rutilant (feminine rutilante, masculine plural rutilants, feminine plural rutilantes) 1. rutilant

   Further reading

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

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   Verb

   rutilant 1. third-person plural present active indicative of rutilō

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   Rutilant is an adjective meaning shining or glowing with a red colour or light. It comes from Latin rutilantem, the present participle of rutilō, and has cognates in other languages.

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