fuligo

See also: Fuligo

Latin

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂li-, from the root *dʰewh₂- (“to blow; wind, vapor, smoke”). Cognate with Lithuanian dūlis (“fog”). See also Latin furvus (“dark, swarthy”) and fūmus (“smoke”). For the terminal element, compare -īgō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːˈliː.ɡoː/, [fuːˈl̪iː.ɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈli.ɡo/, [fuˈliː.ɡɔ]

Noun

fūlīgō f (genitive fūlīginis); third declension

1. soot, lampblack

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūlīgō	fūlīginēs
Genitive	fūlīginis	fūlīginum
Dative	fūlīginī	fūlīginibus
Accusative	fūlīginem	fūlīginēs
Ablative	fūlīgine	fūlīginibus
Vocative	fūlīgō	fūlīginēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: follín
• Aromanian: fulidzini, furidzinã
• → French: fuligine
• Galician: feluxe, fuluxe
• Italian: fuliggine

• Portuguese: fuligem
• Romanian: funingine
• Sardinian: foddine, puddini
• Sicilian: fulìnija, filìnija
• Spanish: hollín; → fuligo
• Translingual: Fuligo

References

• fuligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuligo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fuligo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fuligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “fūlīgō” on page 744/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)