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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.

Noun edit

fulgor (usually uncountable, plural fulgors)

  1. Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
    • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
      She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.

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Noun edit

fulgor m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of fulgore

Latin edit

Etymology edit

fulgeō (I flash, lighten) +‎ -or (abstract noun suffix). A later formation compared to fulgur.

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Noun edit

fulgor m (genitive fulgōris); third declension

  1. lightning
    Synonym: fulgur
  2. flash, glitter, gleam, brightness, splendour

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fulgor fulgōrēs
Genitive fulgōris fulgōrum
Dative fulgōrī fulgōribus
Accusative fulgōrem fulgōrēs
Ablative fulgōre fulgōribus
Vocative fulgor fulgōrēs

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Descendants edit

  • English: fulgor
  • Galician: fulgor
  • Italian: fulgore, folgore,
  • Portuguese: fulgor
  • Spanish: fulgor

References edit

  • fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fulˈɡoɾ/ [fulˈɣ̞oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: ful‧gor

Noun edit

fulgor m (plural fulgores)

  1. shine, glow, splendor
    Synonyms: brillo, esplendor

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