fulcio

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *folkjō. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelḱ- (beam, plank).

Pronunciation

Verb

fulciō (present infinitive fulcīre, perfect active fulsī, supine fultum); fourth conjugation

  1. to prop up, support
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.246–249:
      Iamque volāns apicem et latera ardua cernit
      Atlantis dūrī, caelum quī vertice fulcit,
      Atlantis, cīnctum adsiduē cui nūbibus ātrīs
      pīniferum caput et ventō pulsātur et imbrī.
      And now, flying, he sees the peak and steep sides
      of the tough Atlas, who supports the sky on his head,
      of Atlas, whose pine-bearing head surrounded by dark clouds
      is constantly beaten by wind as well as by rain.
  2. to strengthen, secure, support
    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 2.1146–1149:
      Omnia dēbet enim cibus integrāre novandō
      et fulcīre cibus, cibus omnia sustentāre—
      nēquīquam, quoniam nec vēnae perpetiuntur
      quod satis est neque quantum opus est nātūra ministrat.
      For food should repair all by renewing
      and strengthen, support everything—
      but to no avail, because neither do veins contain
      enough, nor does nature provide as much as necessary.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Galician: refucir
  • Italian: folcire
  • Latin: *fulcius
    • ? Proto-Albanian: *fujqi
  • Spanish: fulcir

References

  • fulcio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fulcio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fulcio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.