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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥-g-mh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare flagrō (“to blaze”) from the same root.
Pronunciation
Noun
flamma f (genitive flammae); first declension
- flame, fire
Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.- He threatened the city with fire and sword.
- (figuratively) a fire or flame (of love or passion), love, passion, desire, heat, fury
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.586–587:
- “‘ animumque explēsse iuvābit
ultrīcis flammae, et cinerēs satiāsse meōrum.’”- “‘And it will feel good to fill my soul flames of vengeance, and to appease the ashes of my .’”
(Aeneas recalls the fall of Troy, the city afire, and how he considered whether to kill Helen “in the heat of the moment”; i.e., extreme emotion feels like a fire within the body. Syncope: explevisse, satiavisse; substitution: ultricis for ultionis.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
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Descendants
References
- “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flamma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be devoured by the flames: flammis corripi
- “flamma”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
flamma
- simple past and past participle of flamme
Alternative forms
Swedish
Etymology
From Old French flame.
Noun
flamma c
- a flame
- a woman, a romance
Declension
Verb
flamma (present flammar, preterite flammade, supine flammat, imperative flamma)
- to blaze, to flame
- (with "upp") flare up
Conjugation
Conjugation of flamma (weak)
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