fiamma

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Italian fiamma (“flame”).

Noun

fiamma (plural fiamme)

  1. (volcanology) A "flame structure" found in welded ignimbrite and tuff: a small, dark lens of glassy material (possibly pumice which was compressed or collapsed during welding).
    • 1966, Bulletin Volcanologique, page 88:
      […] black glass from "fiamma" of ignimbrites from Zavaritzkiy caldera in Simushir Is.
    • 1993, Jocelyn McPhie, Mark Doyle, Rodney Leslie Allen, Volcanic Textures: A Guide to the Interpretation of Textures, page 135:
      […] the largest fiamma in the centre of the photograph has responded in a brittle fashion to […]
    • 1993, Alexander R. McBirney, Igneous Petrology, page 359:
      […] lenticular "fiamme" of dense black glass. In (d), devitrification has produced radiating spherulites that have grown outward from centers around phenocrysts and across the original shards of glass.
    • 2008, Kenneth Thomson, Nick Petford, Structure and Emplacement of High-level Magmatic Systems, page 214:
      […] total phenocryst content in fiamme of pyroclastic rocks and in matrix of coherent rhyolitic rocks; data see Tables 1 and 2; (d) aspect ratio v. maximum particle size (mps) of fiamme (note: this diagram shows field measurements not presented in tables […]

Italian

Etymology

From Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flāgmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₂gmeh₂, derived from an extension of the root *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Compare French flamme, Portuguese chama, Spanish llama.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfjam.ma/
  • Rhymes: -amma
  • Hyphenation: fiàm‧ma
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Noun

fiamma f (plural fiamme)

  1. flame (part of fire)
  2. (figurative) flame (romantic partner)
  3. (figurative) flame (burning sentiment)
  4. (nautical) pennant, pennon
  5. (military) flash

Derived terms

Noun

fiamma m (invariable)

  1. (siderurgy) a worker who cuts metal using a cutting torch
    Synonyms: bruciaferro, fiammista, ossigenista

See also

Further reading

  • fiamma1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • fiamma2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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