fulmen
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fulmen (plural fulmina)
- (obsolete) A thunderbolt.
- An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From earlier *fulgimen, from Proto-Italic *folgamen, that is, fulgeō (“flash, glare, lighten”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈful.men/, [ˈfʊɫ̪mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈful.men/, [ˈfulmen]
Noun edit
fulmen n (genitive fulminis); third declension
- lightning
- lightning that strikes or sets on fire; a thunderbolt
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fulmen | fulmina |
Genitive | fulminis | fulminum |
Dative | fulminī | fulminibus |
Accusative | fulmen | fulmina |
Ablative | fulmine | fulminibus |
Vocative | fulmen | fulmina |
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Descendants edit
- Friulian: fulmin
- Istriot: foûlmini
- Italian: fulmine
- Lombard: fulmen, fulmin
- Piedmontese: fùlmin
- Portuguese: fúlmen
- Sicilian: fùrmini
- Esperanto: fulmo
References edit
- “fulmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fulmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fulmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fulmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
- the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
- to be struck by lightning: fulmine tangi, ici
- struck by lightning: fulmine ictus
- the lightning flashes: fulmina micant