Fiume

See also: fiume

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (river).

Proper noun

Fiume

  1. (chiefly historical, potentially offensive) Synonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia.
    • 2020, Dominique Kirchner Reill, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1:
      Christmas 1920 was not what locals had come to anticipate in Fiume, the industrial port town in the northeast corner of the Adriatic Sea.
  2. (historical) A former polity in Europe, between 1920–1924.

Usage notes

Use of the name Fiume to describe modern Rijeka may be understood as supporting irredentist Italian claims to the city and its hinterland.

Synonyms

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (river).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfijumɛ]
  • Hyphenation: Fi‧u‧me
  • Rhymes: -mɛ

Proper noun

Fiume

  1. Rijeka (a city in Croatia)
    Synonym: (dated) Szentvit

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative Fiume
accusative Fiumét
dative Fiuménak
instrumental Fiuméval
causal-final Fiuméért
translative Fiumévá
terminative Fiuméig
essive-formal Fiumeként
essive-modal
inessive Fiuméban
superessive Fiumén
adessive Fiuménál
illative Fiuméba
sublative Fiuméra
allative Fiuméhoz
elative Fiuméból
delative Fiuméról
ablative Fiumétól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
Fiuméé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
Fiumééi
Possessive forms of Fiume
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Fiumém
2nd person sing. Fiuméd
3rd person sing. Fiuméja
1st person plural Fiuménk
2nd person plural Fiumétok
3rd person plural Fiuméjuk

Derived terms

  • fiumei

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (river). See fiume for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfju.me/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Hyphenation: Fiù‧me

Proper noun

Fiume f

  1. Rijeka (a city in Croatia)

Derived terms

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