Vulturnus

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	Vulturnus	Vulturna	Vulturnum	Vulturnī	Vulturnae	Vulturna
Genitive	Vulturnī	Vulturnae	Vulturnī	Vulturnōrum	Vulturnārum	Vulturnōrum
Dative	Vulturnō	Vulturnae	Vulturnō	Vulturnīs
Accusative	Vulturnum	Vulturnam	Vulturnum	Vulturnōs	Vulturnās	Vulturna
Ablative	Vulturnō	Vulturnā	Vulturnō	Vulturnīs
Vocative	Vulturne	Vulturna	Vulturnum	Vulturnī	Vulturnae	Vulturna

Etymology 2 edit

Probably ultimately related to vertō; earlier likely an Etruscan deity, perhaps also the namesake of the city Volturnum, now Capua.

Proper noun edit

Vulturnus m sg (genitive Vulturnī); second declension

A Roman divinity, one of the dī indigetēs, served by the flāmen vulturnālis; perhaps the same as Vertumnus

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vulturnus
Genitive	Vulturnī
Dative	Vulturnō
Accusative	Vulturnum
Ablative	Vulturnō
Vocative	Vulturne

Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

From Vultur, name of a mountain in Apulia southeast of Rome, possibly related to vultur (“vulture”).

Alternative forms edit

vulturnus

Proper noun edit

Vulturnus m (genitive Vulturnī); second declension

The south-east wind or the east wind, depending on the source
- 3rd c. AD, Lucius Ampelius, Liber Memorialis IV:
  Venti fiunt ex aeris motu et inclinatione. Sunt autem generales quattuor: eurus, idem apheliotes, idem vulturnus ab oriente; ab occidente zephyrus, idem corus, idem favonius; aquilo, idem boreas, aparctias idem, a septentrione; notus, idem libs et auster et africus a meridie.
  Winds are caused by the motion and direction of air. Principally there are four winds, Eurus, that is Apheliotes or Vulturnus from the east; from the west, Zephyrus, or Corus or Favonius; Aquilo, or Boreas or Aparctias from the north; and Notus, that is Lips, Auster or Africus from the south.
- c. 79 CE, Pliny Maior, Naturalis Historiae II.119:
  Sunt ergo bini in quattuor caeli partibus, ab oriente aequinoctiali subsolanus, ab oriente brumali vulturnus.
  Then each quarter of the sky is taken in half, so that [from the north-east, where the sun rises] by summer comes Subsolanus, from [the south-east where the sun rises] by winter comes Vulturnus.
(rare) the south-east, or east direction, depending on the source
- c. 995 CE, Richerus, Historiarum Libri Quatuor III.71:
  Aeream aquilam quae in vertice palatii a Karolo magno acsi volans fixa erat, in vulturnum converterunt. Nam Germani eam in favonium converterant, subtiliter significantes Gallos suo equitatu quandoque posse devinci.
  They rotated the bronze eagle into the East Wind, which had been fixed at the top of the palace by Charlemagne as though aloft. For the Germans had turned it into the West Wind keenly to remind the French they could be beaten anytime by their cavalry.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Vulturnus	Vulturnī
Genitive	Vulturnī	Vulturnōrum
Dative	Vulturnō	Vulturnīs
Accusative	Vulturnum	Vulturnōs
Ablative	Vulturnō	Vulturnīs
Vocative	Vulturne	Vulturnī

Descendants edit

See vulturnus.

References edit

“Vulturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Vulturnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Mestica (1998): Diccionario Akal de mitología universal