fulgur

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Fulgur fit in nūbibus et per atmosphaeram caelī ad terram dēmittitur.
 (Lightning occurs in the clouds and descends through the atmosphere of the sky to the earth.)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *folgos, from the same root as fulgeō (flash, lighten). The declension pattern changed to a rhotic stem due to natural development in the oblique cases (and the nominative, accusative, and vocative plurals), but the nominative, accusative and vocative cases are an anomaly; logically, the base should be fulgus, if nouns like corpus and rūs are anything to go by.

Pronunciation

Noun

fulgur n (genitive fulguris); third declension

  1. lightning, a flash of lightning
    Synonym: fulgor
  2. thunderbolt
    Synonym: fulmen
  3. brightness, splendor
    Synonym: fulgor

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative fulgur fulgura
genitive fulguris fulgurum
dative fulgurī fulguribus
accusative fulgur fulgura
ablative fulgure fulguribus
vocative fulgur fulgura

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References

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