lume – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of lume

Noun: lume
Gender: m Hyphenation: lù‧me
Singular mlume
Plural mlumi

Sample Sentences

  • Facesti come quei che va di notte, / che porta il lume dietro e sé non giova, / ma dopo sé fa le persone dotte […] (You did as one who walks in the night, carrying his light behind, and does not help himself, but makes the people after them wary) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 67–69; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • Pericone non diede indugio a seguitarla, ma spento ogni lume prestamente dall'altra parte le si coricò al lato […] (Pericone was not slow to follow her, but, putting out every light, promptly hid himself beside her […]) [1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:]
  • C’era una vernaccia!... Ma, con una buona dormita, tutto se ne va. Ho un gran sonno... Levami un po’ quel lume dinanzi, che m’accieca... mi dà una noia...! (The wine was so fine!... With a good sleep all will be well again. I am overcome by sleep... Get that lamp away from before me, it's blinding me... it troubles me so...!) [1840–1842, Alessandro Manzoni, chapter XXXIII, in I promessi sposi^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/I_promessi_sposi_(1840)), Milan: Guglielmini e Redaelli, published in I promessi sposi - Storia della colonna infame:]
  • La spera ottava vi dimostra molti / lumi, li quali e nel quale e nel quanto / notar si posson di diversi volti. (The eighth sphere displays many lights to you, which—in their quality and quantity—can be noted of different aspects.) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • Fra tanti amici lumi, / una nube lontana mi dispiacque; / la qual temo che 'n pianto si risolve […] (Among so many friendly stars, one distant cloud displeased me: which I fear will melt away in tears) [1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCCXXV — Tacer non posso, et temo non adopre”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 72–74; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:]
  • Volsimi a loro e: «O gente sicura», / incominciai, «di veder l'alto lume / che ’l disio vostro solo ha in cura (I turned towards them, and, "O people, certain," I began, "of seeing the high light, which is the only care of your desire) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 85–87; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • si trovan molte gioie care e belle / tanto che non si posson trar del regno; / e ’l canto di quei lumi era di quelle; (Many jewels are found, so fair and precious that one cannot take them away from the realm; and the singing of those lights was one of them) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 71–73; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • O de li altri poeti onore e lume, / vagliami ’l lungo studio e ’l grande amore / che m’ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume. ("O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume!) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 82–84; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • Cadde Riféo, ch’era ne’ Teucri un lume / di bontà, di giustizia e d’equitate (Ripheus fell, who was a light among the Teucrians / for goodness, justice and equity) [mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro secondo”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 694–695; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Eneide_(Caro)), Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:]
  • A que’ tre che tu, Fiorenza, onori / eterni lumi della lingua nostra (To those three that you, Florence, honour/honor, eternal lights of our own language) [c. 1527, Francesco Berni, Orlando Innamorato [Orlando in Love], Milano: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, published 1828, Canto XIII, page 37:]
  • Li raggi delle quattro luci sante / fregiavan sì la sua faccia di lume / ch’i’ ’l vedea come ’l sol fosse davante. (The rays of the four sacred stars so adorned his face with light, that I saw him as if the sun were before him.) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 37–38; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • Il cinguettìo, così tra lume e scuro, / cessò d’un tratto. Era comparso il sole. / Sparì ciascuno nel bel giorno puro. (The chirping, between light and darkness ceased suddenly. The Sun had risen. They all disappeared into the pure day.) [1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “La capinera”, in Nuovi Poemetti, lines 7–9:]
  • […] e facea alcuno effetto sopr’umano, / dar lume a ciechi, e tornar morti a vita, / fermare il vento ad un segno di croce, / e far tranquillo il mar quand’è più atroce[…]. ([a hermit] who had done superhuman deeds; regiving sight to the blind, and restoring the dead to life; hushing the winds with a sign of the cross and pacifying the sea when at its scariest.) [1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 43”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 187; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:]
  • E vidi lagrimar que' duo bei lumi, / c'han fatto mille volte invidia al Sole; / ed udii sospirando dir parole / che farian gir i monti e stare i fiumi. (And I saw two lovely eyes that wept, that made the sun a thousand times jealous; and I heard words emerge among sighs that made the mountains move, and halted rivers.) [1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CLVI — I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 5–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:]
  • […] e cadde tramortita: e di diffuse / di gelato sudore: e i lumi chiuse. ([…] and she fell to the ground, stunned, getting covered with freezing sweat, and closed her eyes.) [1575, Torquato Tasso, “Canto 16”, in Gerusalemme liberata, stanza 60; republished as La Gerusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, Paris: Agostino Delalain; Pietro Durand; Gio. Claudio Molini, 1771:]
  • Ché, se il fato è diverso, e non consente / ch'io per la Grecia i moribondi lumi / chiuda prostrato in guerra, […] (If fate's opposed, and will not consent that I fall in war, and close my dying eyes, for Greece, […]) [1818–1836, Giacomo Leopardi, “I — All'Italia”, in Canti, lines 134–136; republished as Alessandro Donati, editor, Bari: publ. Laterza, 1917:]
  • Veramente a così alto sospetto / non ti fermar, se quella non ti dice / che lume fia tra 'l vero e lo 'ntelletto. (Verily, in so deep a questioning do not decide, unless she tell it thee, who light 'twixt truth and intellect shall be.) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • i lumi finalmente che ogni giorno più vanno allontanando gli uomini dall'antica ferocia (and lastly the enlightenment, which every day carries mankind further away from the ancient ferocity) [1766, Pietro Verri, “Conſiderazioni ſul Luſſo [Considerations upon Luxury]”, in Il caffè [The Café], volume 1, Pietro Pizzolato, page 188:]
  • Da ciò veggiamo quanto sia utile la stampa, che rende il pubblico, e non alcuni pochi, depositario delle sante leggi, e quanto abbia dissipato quello spirito tenebroso di cabala e d’intrigo, che sparisce in faccia ai lumi ed alle scienze[…]. (Hence we see the use of printing, which makes the public, and not a few individuals, the guardians of the sacred laws, and how it has dissipated the gloomy spirit of cabal and intrigue, which disappears in the face of enlightenment and sciences […].) [1764, Cesare Beccaria, “Capitolo V”, in Dei delitti e delle pene:]
  • La seduta fu sciolta senza concludere nulla. Il segretario voleva un po' di tempo per prender lume; (The meeting was closed without deciding upon anything. The clerk wanted time to get up his subject.) [1881, Giovanni Verga, “Capitolo VII”, in I Malavoglia:]
  • Lo cielo i vostri movimenti inizia; / non dico tutti, ma, posto ch'i' 'l dica, / lume v'è dato a bene e a malizia (The heavens your movements do initiate, I say not all; but granting that I say it, light has been given you for good and evil) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVI”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lūmen. In the sense of "lumen" it is a modern neologism. Doublet of lumen, a borrowing. See: Latin Nouns 'lūmen', Latin Nouns 'lūmen'.

Verbs referencing "lume"

Spanish Nouns lumbre.

Translations