illustre – French adjective declension

French adjective forms of illustre

Adjective: illustre

Hyphenation:
Singular m.illustre
Singular f.illustre
Plural m.illustres
Plural f.illustres

Sample Sentences

  • À Florence, riche et fameuse ville d’Italie, dans la province qu’on appelle Toscane, vivaient deux gentilshommes d’illustre famille, Anselme et Lothaire.... (In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy, in the province called Tuscany, lived two gentlemen of illustrious family, Anselmo and Lothario....) [1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXXIII:]

Etymology

From Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”). See: Latin Adjectives 'illustris'.

Verbs referencing "illustre"

German Adjectives illuster, English Adjectives illustre, Romanian Adjectives ilustru.

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