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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥-g-mh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare flagrō (“to blaze”) from the same root.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈflam.ma/, [ˈfɫ̪ämːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflam.ma/, [ˈflämːä]
Noun
[edit]flamma f (genitive flammae); first declension
- flame, fire
- Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.
- He threatened the city with fire and sword.
- (figuratively) a fire or flame (of love or passion), love, passion, desire, heat, fury
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.586–587:
- “‘[...] animumque explēsse iuvābit
ultrīcis flammae, et cinerēs satiāsse meōrum.’”- “‘And it will feel good to fill my soul [with] flames of vengeance, and [thus] to appease the ashes of my [people].’”
(Aeneas recalls the fall of Troy, the city afire, and how he considered whether to kill Helen “in the heat of the moment”; i.e., extreme emotion feels like a fire within the body. Syncope: explevisse, satiavisse; substitution: ultricis for ultionis.)
- “‘And it will feel good to fill my soul [with] flames of vengeance, and [thus] to appease the ashes of my [people].’”
- “‘[...] animumque explēsse iuvābit
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | flamma | flammae |
genitive | flammae | flammārum |
dative | flammae | flammīs |
accusative | flammam | flammās |
ablative | flammā | flammīs |
vocative | flamma | flammae |
Synonyms
[edit]- (flame, fire): ignis
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aromanian: fleamã
- Asturian: llama
- Catalan: flama
- Franco-Provençal: fllama
- Friulian: flame
- → German: Flamme
- Greek: φλαμούρι (flamoúri), φλαμουριά (flamouriá)
- Italian: fiamma
- Occitan: flamba
- Old French: flamme
- Old Galician-Portuguese: chama
- → Portuguese: flama
- → Romanian: flamă
- Sardinian: fiama, fiamma
- Sicilian: ciamma
- Spanish: llama, flama
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flammizāre (see there for further descendants)
- → Welsh: fflam
References
[edit]- “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flamma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be devoured by the flames: flammis corripi
- to be devoured by the flames: flammis corripi
- “flamma”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]flamma
- simple past and past participle of flamme
Alternative forms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French flame.
Noun
[edit]flamma c
Declension
[edit]Declension of flamma
Derived terms
[edit]- flammig (“blotchy”)
Verb
[edit]flamma (present flammar, preterite flammade, supine flammat, imperative flamma)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of flamma (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | flamma | — | ||
Supine | flammat | — | ||
Imperative | flamma | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | flammen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | flammar | flammade | — | — |
Ind. plural1 | flamma | flammade | — | — |
Subjunctive2 | flamme | flammade | — | — |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | flammande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Further reading
[edit]- flamma in Svensk ordbok.
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