leonardeschi
/ˌli.ənɑɹˈdɛski/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting."
- "There are good reasons to think that Caravaggio admired the renaissance art of the Leonardeschi. For this Boy peeling fruit, he may have been thinking specifically of the famous Flora that was painted around 1510 by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo's most faithful Milanese students and indeed his legal heir."
- "In the first half of the sixteenth century, only the leonardeschi — those painters who undergo the influence of Leonardo and his works — correspond to such needs."
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian leonardeschi, the masculine plural form of leonardesco (“of or pertaining to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardesque”), named after the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) + -esco (“-esque”, suffix forming an adjective or noun indicating relationship, membership or quality).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: leonardeschi
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌli.ənɑɹˈdɛski/
- British English: /ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛskɪ/
Inflected Forms
the Leonardeschi (canonical, plural)