Fiume
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See also: fiume
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (“river”).
Proper noun
Fiume
- (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.
- (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
- (polity): Free State of Fiume
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (“river”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Fiume
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
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (“river”). See fiume for more.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Fiume f