fulgere

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulgēre.

Pronunciation

Verb

fùlgere (first-person singular present fùlgo, first-person singular past historic fùlsi, no past participle)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) to shine, sparkle, glitter, flash
    Synonyms: (literary) rifulgere, risplendere
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Fulgeami già in fronte la corona
      di quella terra che ’l Danubio riga
      poi che le ripe tedesche abbandona.
      Already flashed upon my brow the crown of that dominion which the Danube waters after the German borders it abandons.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fùlgere (root-stressed -ere; irregular; defective) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive fùlgere
auxiliary verb — gerund fulgèndo
present participle fulgènte past participle —
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fùlgo fùlgi fùlge fulgiàmo fulgéte fùlgono
imperfect fulgévo fulgévi fulgéva fulgevàmo fulgevàte fulgévano
past historic fùlsi fulgésti fùlse fulgémmo fulgéste fùlsero
future fulgerò fulgerài fulgerà fulgerémo fulgeréte fulgerànno
conditional fulgerèi fulgerésti fulgerèbbe, fulgerébbe fulgerémmo fulgeréste fulgerèbbero, fulgerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present fùlga fùlga fùlga fulgiàmo fulgiàte fùlgano
imperfect fulgéssi fulgéssi fulgésse fulgéssimo fulgéste fulgéssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
fùlgi fùlga fulgiàmo fulgéte fùlgano
negative imperative non fùlgere non fùlga non fulgiàmo non fulgéte non fùlgano

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

fulgēre

  1. present active infinitive of fulgeō

Etymology 2

Verb

fulgere

  1. present active infinitive of fulgō

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

fulgere

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of fulgera
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