Where does “alustrar” come from?
alustrar (Galician) comes from Portuguese alustre, from Portuguese lustre, from French lustre, from Middle French lustre, from Italian lustro, from Italian lustrare, from Latin lūstrō, from Latin lūstrum — bright; to shine; to see.
alustrar (Galician): to flash
Definitions
- to flash
Ancestry of “alustrar”, step by step
alustrar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese alustre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | alustre | lightning |
| 2 | Portuguese | lustre | chandelier |
| 3 | French | lustre | lustrum; period of five years; a very long time;... |
| 4 | Middle French | lustre | lustre; shine |
| 5 | Italian | lustro | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 6 | Italian | lustrare | to polish, shine |
| 7 | Latin | lūstrō | to purify by means of a propitiatory sacrifice |
| 8 | Latin | lūstrum | bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow |
| 9 | Old Latin | loustrom | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | lewkstrom | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | lewk- | bright; to shine; to see |