fulmen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulmen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʌlmən/

Noun

fulmen (plural fulmina)

  1. (obsolete) A thunderbolt.
  2. An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.

Latin

Etymology

From earlier *fulgimen, from Proto-Italic *folgamen, that is, fulgeō (flash, glare, lighten) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

fulmen n (genitive fulminis); third declension

  1. lightning
    Synonyms: ictus, tonitrus
  2. lightning that strikes or sets on fire; a thunderbolt
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.833–834:
      ille precābātur, tonitrū dedit ōmina laevō
      Iuppiter, et laevō fulmina missa polō.
      Those [are the] things he was praying [for]; Jupiter gave omens with thunder on the left, and thunderbolts having been sent from the leftward sky.
      (The prayers of Romulus for divine favor toward Rome are acknowledged by Jupiter.)

Declension

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Friulian: fulmin
  • Istriot: foûlmini
  • Italian: fulmine
  • Lombard: fulmen, fulmin
  • Piedmontese: fùlmin
  • Portuguese: fúlmen
  • Sicilian: fùrmini
  • Esperanto: fulmo

References

  • 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, 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

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