"lume" meaning in Italian

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlu.me/ Forms: lumi [plural]
Rhymes: -ume Etymology: From Latin lūmen. In the sense of "lumen" it is a modern neologism. Doublet of lumen, a borrowing. Etymology templates: {{root|it|ine-pro|*lewk-}}, {{dercat|it|itc-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|it|la|lūmen}} Latin lūmen, {{doublet|it|lumen}} Doublet of lumen Head templates: {{it-noun|m}} lume m (plural lumi)
  1. a light source Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-dHAdWmYU
  2. a light source
    (dated) a non-electrical light source (e.g. a candle or an oil lamp)
    Tags: dated, masculine
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-DSUZXt2k Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 4 10 4 3 8 1 2 12 6 11 1 2 1 8 7 7 7 6
  3. (rare) an electrical light source Tags: masculine, rare
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-Ymrz0qYC
  4. (by extension, poetic) star Tags: broadly, masculine, poetic Synonyms: stella, astro
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-Ul7KHVCJ
  5. (by extension, poetic) star
    (figurative, poetic) God
    Tags: broadly, figuratively, masculine, poetic Synonyms: stella, astro
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-wmroLz-F
  6. (figurative, by extension, poetic) a blessed soul or entity Tags: broadly, figuratively, masculine, poetic
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-Q3vtq~a7
  7. (figurative, by extension, literary, poetic) a notable person within a specific field or discipline Tags: broadly, figuratively, literary, masculine, poetic
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-B0daBrUF
  8. light, specifically:
    (archaic, literary) (natural) light
    Tags: archaic, literary, masculine Synonyms: luce
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-gVKz2bPd Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 4 10 4 3 8 1 2 12 6 11 1 2 1 8 7 7 7 6
  9. light, specifically:
    (dated) (artificial) light, (non-electrical)
    Tags: dated, masculine
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-~sMylP0J
  10. (painting) the manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Painting
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-9D7XLz7W Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 4 10 4 3 8 1 2 12 6 11 1 2 1 8 7 7 7 6
  11. (figurative) sight (sense) Tags: figuratively, masculine Synonyms: vista
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-ICVjnWzp
  12. (figurative) sight (sense)
    (in the plural) eyes
    Tags: figuratively, in-plural, masculine Synonyms: vista, occhi
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun--JyAGmT3
  13. (figurative) spiritual or mental illumination, enlightenment, light Tags: figuratively, masculine
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-27gHK-4G
  14. (in the plural) the culture founded on a rationalistic basis Tags: in-plural, masculine
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-i-qdnjmN
  15. (figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice Tags: figuratively, masculine, plural-normally Synonyms: chiarimento, consiglio
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-hv9Q4MuJ
  16. (figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice
    (by extension) discernment
    Tags: broadly, figuratively, masculine, plural-normally Synonyms: chiarimento, consiglio, discernimento
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-j6Bd~rZi
  17. (anatomy) lumen Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-RW9F~dwu Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  18. (fishing) the size of a fishing net's meshes Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Fishing
    Sense id: en-lume-it-noun-4ZSfa-H8 Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: allumare Related terms: illuminare, illuminismo, luminare, luminaria, luminio, luminoso

Inflected forms

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          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Facesti come quei che va di notte, / che porta il lume dietro e sé non giova, / ma dopo sé fa le persone dotte […]",
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          "english": "Pericone was not slow to follow her, but, putting out every light, promptly hid himself beside her […]",
          "ref": "1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:",
          "text": "Pericone non diede indugio a seguitarla, ma spento ogni lume prestamente dall'altra parte le si coricò al lato […]",
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          "english": "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...!",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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...!",
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          "english": "The eighth sphere displays many lights to you, which—in their quality and quantity—can be noted of different aspects.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "La spera ottava vi dimostra molti / lumi, li quali e nel quale e nel quanto / notar si posson di diversi volti.",
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        {
          "english": "Among so many friendly stars, one distant cloud displeased me: which I fear will melt away in tears",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Fra tanti amici lumi, / una nube lontana mi dispiacque; / la qual temo che 'n pianto si risolve […]",
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          "english": "I turned towards them, and, \"O people, certain,\" I began, \"of seeing the high light, which is the only care of your desire",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Volsimi a loro e: «O gente sicura», / incominciai, «di veder l'alto lume / che ’l disio vostro solo ha in cura",
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          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "si trovan molte gioie care e belle / tanto che non si posson trar del regno; / e ’l canto di quei lumi era di quelle;",
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          "english": "\"O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume!",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "O de li altri poeti onore e lume, / vagliami ’l lungo studio e ’l grande amore / che m’ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.",
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          "english": "Ripheus fell, who was a light among the Teucrians / for goodness, justice and equity",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Cadde Riféo, ch’era ne’ Teucri un lume / di bontà, di giustizia e d’equitate",
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        {
          "english": "To those three that you, Florence, honour/honor, eternal lights of our own language",
          "ref": "c. 1527, Francesco Berni, Orlando Innamorato [Orlando in Love], Milano: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, published 1828, Canto XIII, page 37:",
          "text": "A que’ tre che tu, Fiorenza, onori / eterni lumi della lingua nostra",
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          "english": "The rays of the four sacred stars so adorned his face with light, that I saw him as if the sun were before him.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Li raggi delle quattro luci sante / fregiavan sì la sua faccia di lume / ch’i’ ’l vedea come ’l sol fosse davante.",
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        {
          "english": "The chirping, between light and darkness ceased suddenly. The Sun had risen. They all disappeared into the pure day.",
          "ref": "1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “La capinera”, in Nuovi Poemetti, lines 7–9:",
          "text": "Il cinguettìo, così tra lume e scuro, / cessò d’un tratto. Era comparso il sole. / Sparì ciascuno nel bel giorno puro.",
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          "english": "[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.",
          "ref": "1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 43”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 187; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:",
          "text": "[…] 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[…].",
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          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "english": "[…] and she fell to the ground, stunned, getting covered with freezing sweat, and closed her eyes.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "[…] e cadde tramortita: e di diffuse / di gelato sudore: e i lumi chiuse.",
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        {
          "english": "If fate's opposed, and will not consent that I fall in war, and close my dying eyes, for Greece, […]",
          "ref": "1818–1836, Giacomo Leopardi, “I — All'Italia”, in Canti, lines 134–136; republished as Alessandro Donati, editor, Bari: publ. Laterza, 1917:",
          "text": "Ché, se il fato è diverso, e non consente / ch'io per la Grecia i moribondi lumi / chiuda prostrato in guerra, […]",
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        {
          "english": "Verily, in so deep a questioning do not decide, unless she tell it thee, who light 'twixt truth and intellect shall be.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Veramente a così alto sospetto / non ti fermar, se quella non ti dice / che lume fia tra 'l vero e lo 'ntelletto.",
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          "illumination",
          "illumination"
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        [
          "enlightenment",
          "enlightenment"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
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      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and lastly the enlightenment, which every day carries mankind further away from the ancient ferocity",
          "ref": "1766, Pietro Verri, “Conſiderazioni ſul Luſſo [Considerations upon Luxury]”, in Il caffè [The Café], volume 1, Pietro Pizzolato, page 188:",
          "text": "i lumi finalmente che ogni giorno più vanno allontanando gli uomini dall'antica ferocia",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "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 […].",
          "ref": "1764, Cesare Beccaria, “Capitolo V”, in Dei delitti e delle pene:",
          "text": "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[…].",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
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      "id": "en-lume-it-noun-i-qdnjmN",
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          "culture"
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          "rationalistic",
          "rationalistic"
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      "raw_glosses": [
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      "tags": [
        "in-plural",
        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
          "english": "The meeting was closed without deciding upon anything. The clerk wanted time to get up his subject.",
          "ref": "1881, Giovanni Verga, “Capitolo VII”, in I Malavoglia:",
          "text": "La seduta fu sciolta senza concludere nulla. Il segretario voleva un po' di tempo per prender lume;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "useful information, advice"
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      "id": "en-lume-it-noun-hv9Q4MuJ",
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          "advice",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice"
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        {
          "word": "chiarimento"
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        {
          "word": "consiglio"
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      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "plural-normally"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Lo cielo i vostri movimenti inizia; / non dico tutti, ma, posto ch'i' 'l dica, / lume v'è dato a bene e a malizia",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "useful information, advice",
        "discernment"
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      "id": "en-lume-it-noun-j6Bd~rZi",
      "links": [
        [
          "advice",
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          "discernment",
          "discernment"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice",
        "(by extension) discernment"
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        {
          "word": "chiarimento"
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        {
          "word": "consiglio"
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        {
          "word": "discernimento"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "plural-normally"
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    {
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          "langcode": "it",
          "name": "Anatomy",
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            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
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            "Health",
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            "Body"
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      "glosses": [
        "lumen"
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      "id": "en-lume-it-noun-RW9F~dwu",
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          "lumen",
          "lumen"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) lumen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
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          "langcode": "it",
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        "the size of a fishing net's meshes"
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        [
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
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    "Italian terms derived from Latin",
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    {
      "categories": [
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        {
          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Facesti come quei che va di notte, / che porta il lume dietro e sé non giova, / ma dopo sé fa le persone dotte […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Pericone was not slow to follow her, but, putting out every light, promptly hid himself beside her […]",
          "ref": "1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:",
          "text": "Pericone non diede indugio a seguitarla, ma spento ogni lume prestamente dall'altra parte le si coricò al lato […]",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian dated terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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...!",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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...!",
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        "a light source",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "a light source",
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      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an electrical light source"
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        "(rare) an electrical light source"
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "rare"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The eighth sphere displays many lights to you, which—in their quality and quantity—can be noted of different aspects.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "La spera ottava vi dimostra molti / lumi, li quali e nel quale e nel quanto / notar si posson di diversi volti.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Among so many friendly stars, one distant cloud displeased me: which I fear will melt away in tears",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Fra tanti amici lumi, / una nube lontana mi dispiacque; / la qual temo che 'n pianto si risolve […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
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      "synonyms": [
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        "broadly",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I turned towards them, and, \"O people, certain,\" I began, \"of seeing the high light, which is the only care of your desire",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Volsimi a loro e: «O gente sicura», / incominciai, «di veder l'alto lume / che ’l disio vostro solo ha in cura",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "star",
        "God"
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      "links": [
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        {
          "word": "stella"
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          "word": "astro"
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      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "si trovan molte gioie care e belle / tanto che non si posson trar del regno; / e ’l canto di quei lumi era di quelle;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "raw_glosses": [
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        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian literary terms",
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "\"O, of the other poets honour and light, avail me the long study and great love that have impelled me to explore thy volume!",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "O de li altri poeti onore e lume, / vagliami ’l lungo studio e ’l grande amore / che m’ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "Ripheus fell, who was a light among the Teucrians / for goodness, justice and equity",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Cadde Riféo, ch’era ne’ Teucri un lume / di bontà, di giustizia e d’equitate",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "To those three that you, Florence, honour/honor, eternal lights of our own language",
          "ref": "c. 1527, Francesco Berni, Orlando Innamorato [Orlando in Love], Milano: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, published 1828, Canto XIII, page 37:",
          "text": "A que’ tre che tu, Fiorenza, onori / eterni lumi della lingua nostra",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a notable person within a specific field or discipline"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, by extension, literary, poetic) a notable person within a specific field or discipline"
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        "figuratively",
        "literary",
        "masculine",
        "poetic"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian literary terms",
        "Italian terms with archaic senses",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The rays of the four sacred stars so adorned his face with light, that I saw him as if the sun were before him.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Li raggi delle quattro luci sante / fregiavan sì la sua faccia di lume / ch’i’ ’l vedea come ’l sol fosse davante.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "The chirping, between light and darkness ceased suddenly. The Sun had risen. They all disappeared into the pure day.",
          "ref": "1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “La capinera”, in Nuovi Poemetti, lines 7–9:",
          "text": "Il cinguettìo, così tra lume e scuro, / cessò d’un tratto. Era comparso il sole. / Sparì ciascuno nel bel giorno puro.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "light, specifically:",
        "(natural) light"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "light",
          "light"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "light, specifically:",
        "(archaic, literary) (natural) light"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "luce"
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        "archaic",
        "literary",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "light, specifically:",
        "(artificial) light, (non-electrical)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "light, specifically:",
        "(dated) (artificial) light, (non-electrical)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "it:Painting"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall"
      ],
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        [
          "painting",
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      ],
      "qualifier": "painting",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(painting) the manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[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.",
          "ref": "1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 43”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 187; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:",
          "text": "[…] 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[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sight (sense)"
      ],
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        [
          "sight",
          "sight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) sight (sense)"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vista"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "[…] and she fell to the ground, stunned, getting covered with freezing sweat, and closed her eyes.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "[…] e cadde tramortita: e di diffuse / di gelato sudore: e i lumi chiuse.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "If fate's opposed, and will not consent that I fall in war, and close my dying eyes, for Greece, […]",
          "ref": "1818–1836, Giacomo Leopardi, “I — All'Italia”, in Canti, lines 134–136; republished as Alessandro Donati, editor, Bari: publ. Laterza, 1917:",
          "text": "Ché, se il fato è diverso, e non consente / ch'io per la Grecia i moribondi lumi / chiuda prostrato in guerra, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "sight (sense)",
        "eyes"
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          "sight",
          "sight"
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        [
          "eye",
          "eye"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) sight (sense)",
        "(in the plural) eyes"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vista"
        },
        {
          "word": "occhi"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "in-plural",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Verily, in so deep a questioning do not decide, unless she tell it thee, who light 'twixt truth and intellect shall be.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Veramente a così alto sospetto / non ti fermar, se quella non ti dice / che lume fia tra 'l vero e lo 'ntelletto.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "spiritual or mental illumination, enlightenment, light"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "illumination",
          "illumination"
        ],
        [
          "enlightenment",
          "enlightenment"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) spiritual or mental illumination, enlightenment, light"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and lastly the enlightenment, which every day carries mankind further away from the ancient ferocity",
          "ref": "1766, Pietro Verri, “Conſiderazioni ſul Luſſo [Considerations upon Luxury]”, in Il caffè [The Café], volume 1, Pietro Pizzolato, page 188:",
          "text": "i lumi finalmente che ogni giorno più vanno allontanando gli uomini dall'antica ferocia",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "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 […].",
          "ref": "1764, Cesare Beccaria, “Capitolo V”, in Dei delitti e delle pene:",
          "text": "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[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the culture founded on a rationalistic basis"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "culture",
          "culture"
        ],
        [
          "rationalistic",
          "rationalistic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in the plural) the culture founded on a rationalistic basis"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The meeting was closed without deciding upon anything. The clerk wanted time to get up his subject.",
          "ref": "1881, Giovanni Verga, “Capitolo VII”, in I Malavoglia:",
          "text": "La seduta fu sciolta senza concludere nulla. Il segretario voleva un po' di tempo per prender lume;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "useful information, advice"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "advice",
          "advice"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chiarimento"
        },
        {
          "word": "consiglio"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Lo cielo i vostri movimenti inizia; / non dico tutti, ma, posto ch'i' 'l dica, / lume v'è dato a bene e a malizia",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "useful information, advice",
        "discernment"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "advice",
          "advice"
        ],
        [
          "discernment",
          "discernment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, usually in the plural) useful information, advice",
        "(by extension) discernment"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "chiarimento"
        },
        {
          "word": "consiglio"
        },
        {
          "word": "discernimento"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively",
        "masculine",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "it:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lumen"
      ],
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        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "lumen",
          "lumen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) lumen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "it:Fishing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the size of a fishing net's meshes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "size",
          "size"
        ],
        [
          "mesh",
          "mesh"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) the size of a fishing net's meshes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlu.me/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ume"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lume"
}

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