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allumare.

to treat cloth with alum prior to dying it

8 characters4 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

verb/al.luˈma.re/
  1. to treat cloth with alum prior to dying it

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From allum(e) (“alum”) + -are (1ˢᵗ conjugation verbal suffix).

verb/al.luˈma.re/
  1. to make bright, brighten, illuminate

    archaic · poetic · transitive
  2. to kindle, light (e.g. a fire)

    archaic · poetic · transitive
Where this word comes from

Possibly from Old French alumer. By surface analysis, a- (“to, towards”) + lume (“light”) + -are.

verb/al.luˈma.re/
  1. to eye

    archaic · poetic · regional · transitive
Where this word comes from

From a- + lume (in the figurative sense of “eye”) + -are.

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