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Italian
Etymology
From Latin fulgurāre (“to flash, shine”). By surface analysis, folgore (“lightning, thunderbolt”) + -are (1st conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fol.ɡoˈra.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: fol‧go‧rà‧re
Verb
folgoràre (first-person singular present fólgoro, first-person singular past historic folgorài, past participle folgoràto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to strike (down) (especially with lightning)
- (transitive) to electrocute
- (intransitive) to produce lightning
- (intransitive, figurative) to thunder (with words), to inveigh
- (intransitive) to shine, to sparkle
- (intransitive, figurative, literary) to act quickly
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