fuligo

See also: Fuligo

Latin

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂-li-s, 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

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; feluge, fuluge
  • Italian: fuliggine
  • Portuguese: fuligem
  • Romanian: funingine
  • Sardinian: foddine, puddini
  • Sicilian: fulìniga, filìniga
  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
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