éclat – French noun declension

French noun forms of éclat

Noun: éclat
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular méclat
Plural méclats

Sample Sentences

  • On ne saurait soutenir l’éclat du soleil. (The brilliance of the sun cannot be sustained.)
  • L’or mat n’a point d’éclat. (Matte gold has no luster.)
  • L’éclat des yeux, du teint, des fleurs. (The brilliance of eyes, of complexion, of flowers.)
  • 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, Chapter I (It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for the shine of his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing themselves to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. So taken away was he by such sweet thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.)
  • Il a été blessé par un éclat d’obus. (He was wounded by a grenade fragment.)
  • Cette affaire fait éclat, fait de l’éclat, grand éclat, beaucoup d’éclat.
  • Alors il s’écria :
  • « Comment ! tu es tombé du ciel !
  • — Oui, fis-je modestement.
  • — Ah! ça c’est drôle... »
  • Et le petit prince eut un très joli éclat de rire qui m’irrita beaucoup. Je désire que l’on prenne mes malheurs au sérieux. (Then he cried out:
  • — What!? You fell from the sky?
  • — Yes, I said modestly.
  • — Ah! that’s funny...
  • And the little prince had a very pretty burst of laughter which irritated me a lot. I want my misfortunes to be taken seriously.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter III, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:]

Etymology

Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit, slate, slat. See: Old English Nouns 'slītan'.

Verbs referencing "éclat"

English Nouns slate, English Nouns éclat, German Nouns Eklat, Romanian Nouns eclată.

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