resplendir
French, verb/ʁɛs.plɑ̃.diʁ/
resplendir is spelled R-E-S-P-L-E-N-D-I-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resplendir is a French verb meaning “to glimmer, gleam, beam, sparkle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Briller d’un grand éclat”.
What does resplendir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to glimmer, gleam, beam, sparkle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Briller d’un grand éclat. 2. Paraître d’une manière remarquable.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of resplendir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- resplendissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- resplendi participle past
- resplendis first-person indicative present
- resplendit indicative present singular
- resplendissons first-person indicative plural
- resplendissez indicative plural present
- resplendissent indicative plural present
- resplendissais first-person imperfect indicative
- resplendissait imperfect indicative singular
- resplendissions first-person imperfect indicative
- resplendissiez imperfect indicative plural
- resplendissaient imperfect indicative plural
- resplendîmes first-person historic indicative
- resplendîtes historic indicative past
- resplendirent historic indicative past
- resplendirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resplendir?
- /ʁɛs.plɑ̃.diʁ/
- \ʁɛs.plɑ̃.diʁ\
- [ʁɛs.plɑ̃.diʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is resplendir in French?
resplendir appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).