fulgur

See also: Fulgur

Latin

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈful.ɡur/, [ˈfʊɫ̪ɡʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈful.ɡur/, [ˈfulɡur]

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

Derived terms

• fulgurālis
• fulgurō

Related terms

• fulgeō
• fulgor
• fulmen

Descendants

• Aromanian: sfulgu
• Franco-Provençal: fudra
• French: foudre
• Friulian: folc
• Italian: folgore
• Occitan: fólzer
• Catalan: foldre (ant.)
• Romanian: fulger
• Portuguese: fulgor
• → Sicilian: fùrguri

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.