fulgor
English
Alternative forms
- fulgour (obsolete)
Etymology
Noun
fulgor (usually uncountable, plural fulgors)
- Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
- 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:
- She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fulgor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Italian
Noun
fulgor m (apocopated)
- apocopic form of fulgore
Latin
Etymology
fulgeō (“I flash, lighten”) + -or (abstract noun suffix). A later formation compared to fulgur.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfʊɫ.ɡɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈful.ɡor]
Noun
fulgor m (genitive fulgōris); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | fulgor | fulgōrēs |
genitive | fulgōris | fulgōrum |
dative | fulgōrī | fulgōribus |
accusative | fulgōrem | fulgōrēs |
ablative | fulgōre | fulgōribus |
vocative | fulgor | fulgōrēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: folgore, → fulgore
- → English: fulgor
- → Galician: fulgor
- → Portuguese: fulgor
- → Spanish: fulgor
References
- “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fulgor.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fulˈɡoɾ/ [fulˈɣ̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: ful‧gor
Noun
fulgor m (plural fulgores)
Related terms
References
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “fulgor”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
- “fulgor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024