fulgor

• fulgour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.

fulgor (usually uncountable, plural fulgors)

1. Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:

     She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.

• “fulgor”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

fulgor m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of fulgore

fulgeō (“I flash, lighten”) +‎ -or (abstract noun suffix). A later formation compared to fulgur.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈful.ɡor/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈful.ɡor/,

fulgor m (genitive fulgōris); third declension

1. lightning

   Synonym: fulgur

2. flash, glitter, gleam, brightness, splendour

Third-declension noun.

• fulgeō
• fulgur
• fulmen

• English: fulgor
• Galician: fulgor
• Italian: fulgore, folgore,
• Portuguese: fulgor
• Spanish: fulgor

• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.

• IPA^(key): /fulˈɡoɾ/
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ful‧gor

fulgor m (plural fulgores)

1. shine, glow, splendor

   Synonyms: brillo, esplendor

• “fulgor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014