lustro

• IPA^(key): [ˈlustro]
• Rhymes: -ustro
• Hyphenation: lus‧tro

lustro (accusative singular lustron, plural lustroj, accusative plural lustrojn)

1. chandelier

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.stro/
• Rhymes: -ustro
• Hyphenation: lù‧stro

lustro

1. first-person singular present indicative of lustrare

Deverbal from lustrare.

lustro (feminine lustra, masculine plural lustri, feminine plural lustre)

1. shiny
2. glossy

lustro m (plural lustri)

1. shine, gloss
2. prestige

• → Middle French: lustre
  • → English: luster, lustre
• → Ottoman Turkish: لوسترو (lustro, lostro), لوستره (lostra)
  • Turkish: lostra
  • → Armenian: լուստռա (lustṙa)
• → Polish: lustro

Learned borrowing from Latin lūstrum.

lustro m (plural lustri)

2. five-year period; lustrum

   Synonym: quinquennio

• trilustre

From lūstrum (“a purificatory sacrifice”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈluːs.troː/, [ˈɫ̪uːs̠t̪roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.tro/, [ˈlust̪ro]

lūstrō (present infinitive lūstrāre, perfect active lūstrāvī, supine lūstrātum); first conjugation

1. to purify by means of a propitiatory sacrifice

   Synonym: perlūstrō

2. (figuratively) to circle, move in a circle around. (because the priest offering such sacrifice did so)
   • 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 111–112:

     Exul inops errēs aliēnaque līmina lūstrēs,
         exiguumque petās ōre tremente cibum.

     May you wander as a poor exile and go round others' thresholds,
         and ask with a trembling mouth for a bit of food.

3. to wander over, traverse, roam

   Synonyms: errō, pervagor, peragrō, vagor, discurrō, pererrō, perlūstrō, pālor

4. (military) to review, examine
5. to review, survey, observe, examine, reconnoiter, search, track, trace

   Synonyms: aspiciō, perlūstrō, recēnseō, circumspiciō, cōnspiciō, obeō, īnspiciō, arbitror, cōnsīderō, spectō, reputō, exsequor

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.564:

     “Respiciō et quae sit mē circum cōpia lūstrō.”

     “I look back and survey what force is there around me.”

6. to illuminate, make bright. (circling celestial bodies: sun, moon etc.)

   Synonyms: clārō, incendō

Conjugation of lūstrō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	lūstrō	lūstrās	lūstrat	lūstrāmus	lūstrātis	lūstrant
	imperfect	lūstrābam	lūstrābās	lūstrābat	lūstrābāmus	lūstrābātis	lūstrābant
	future	lūstrābō	lūstrābis	lūstrābit	lūstrābimus	lūstrābitis	lūstrābunt
	perfect	lūstrāvī	lūstrāvistī	lūstrāvit	lūstrāvimus	lūstrāvistis	lūstrāvērunt, lūstrāvēre
	pluperfect	lūstrāveram	lūstrāverās	lūstrāverat	lūstrāverāmus	lūstrāverātis	lūstrāverant
	future perfect	lūstrāverō	lūstrāveris	lūstrāverit	lūstrāverimus	lūstrāveritis	lūstrāverint
passive	present	lūstror	lūstrāris, lūstrāre	lūstrātur	lūstrāmur	lūstrāminī	lūstrantur
	imperfect	lūstrābar	lūstrābāris, lūstrābāre	lūstrābātur	lūstrābāmur	lūstrābāminī	lūstrābantur
	future	lūstrābor	lūstrāberis, lūstrābere	lūstrābitur	lūstrābimur	lūstrābiminī	lūstrābuntur
	perfect	lūstrātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	lūstrātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	lūstrātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	lūstrem	lūstrēs	lūstret	lūstrēmus	lūstrētis	lūstrent
	imperfect	lūstrārem	lūstrārēs	lūstrāret	lūstrārēmus	lūstrārētis	lūstrārent
	perfect	lūstrāverim	lūstrāverīs	lūstrāverit	lūstrāverīmus	lūstrāverītis	lūstrāverint
	pluperfect	lūstrāvissem	lūstrāvissēs	lūstrāvisset	lūstrāvissēmus	lūstrāvissētis	lūstrāvissent
passive	present	lūstrer	lūstrēris, lūstrēre	lūstrētur	lūstrēmur	lūstrēminī	lūstrentur
	imperfect	lūstrārer	lūstrārēris, lūstrārēre	lūstrārētur	lūstrārēmur	lūstrārēminī	lūstrārentur
	perfect	lūstrātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	lūstrātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	lūstrā	—	—	lūstrāte	—
	future	—	lūstrātō	lūstrātō	—	lūstrātōte	lūstrantō
passive	present	—	lūstrāre	—	—	lūstrāminī	—
	future	—	lūstrātor	lūstrātor	—	—	lūstrantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		lūstrāre	lūstrāvisse	lūstrātūrum esse	lūstrārī	lūstrātum esse	lūstrātum īrī
participles		lūstrāns	—	lūstrātūrus	—	lūstrātus	lūstrandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		lūstrandī	lūstrandō	lūstrandum	lūstrandō	lūstrātum	lūstrātū

In sense 1, from lustra (“brothel, place of debauchery”) +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix) (compare lustror (“to frequent brothels”)).^[1] Sense 2 is possibly a reinterpretation based on the alternative sense of lustra (“wilds, woods, forest”) or influenced by the etymologically unrelated verb lūstrō (“wander over, traverse, roam”) (see above).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.troː/, [ˈɫ̪ʊs̠t̪roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.tro/, [ˈlust̪ro]

lustrō m (genitive lustrōnis); third declension (uncommon)

1. frequenter of brothels/places of ill repute^[1][2]
   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Com 118:^[3]

     Pessimorum pessime, audax, ganeo lustro aleo!

     • 2017 translation by Amy Richlin^[4]

       Worst of the worst, bold, glutton, barfly, gambler

   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Com 120:^[3]

     Vagus est et lustro

2. vagabond, wanderer, roamer^[5]
   • c. 1150 – 1180, Thesaurus novus Latinitatis 313, (first published by Angelo Mai in Auctores Classici Vol. 8; authorship now attributed to Osbernus of Gloucester):^[3]

     hic lustro, nis ·i· ille qui vagus est et nihil agit nisi fora lustrat, unde Naevius de quodam: vagus, inquit, est et lustro

   • c. 1150 – 1180, Osbern of Gloucester, Derivationes 193:^[6][7]

     Errabundus, erratilis, vagus, lustrones, qui vagi sunt et instabiles

Third-declension noun.

• “lustro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lustro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to scrutinise, examine closely: perlustrare, lustrare oculis aliquid
    
  • to review an army: recensere, lustrare, recognoscere exercitum (Liv. 42. 31)
    

Borrowed from Italian lustro. Doublet of lustr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlus.trɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ustrɔ
• Syllabification: lus‧tro

lustro n (diminutive lusterko, related adjective lustrzany or lustrowy)

2. (countable) mirror, looking-glass (smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it)

   Synonyms: tafla, zwierciadło

4. (uncountable) smooth and shiny water surface

   Synonyms: tafla, zwierciadło

5. (countable, hunting) light stain on the backside of deer, fallow deer, and roes
6. (countable, hunting) spot on the wingtips of capercaillies and black grouse, and on the flight feathers of wild ducks

• lustro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lustro in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• lustro in PWN's encyclopedia

• Hyphenation: lus‧tro

Borrowed from Latin lūstrum, denoting a lavatory sacrifice after a quinquennial census, possibly cognate to luō (“to wash, to cleanse”).

lustro m (plural lustros)

1. lustrum; five-year period

   Synonym: quinquênio

lustro

1. first-person singular present indicative of lustrar

• IPA^(key): /ˈlustɾo/ [ˈlus.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -ustɾo
• Syllabification: lus‧tro

From Latin lustrum, denoting a lavatory sacrifice after a quinquennial census, possibly cognate to luō (“to wash, cleanse”).

lustro m (plural lustros)

1. lustrum; five-year period

   Synonym: quinquenio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lustro

1. first-person singular present indicative of lustrar

• “lustro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28