vulcano

See also: Vulcano

English

Noun

vulcano (plural vulcanos or vulcanoes)

Obsolete form of volcano.
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:
  CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name...

References

“vulcano”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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Interlingua

Noun

vulcano (plural vulcanos)

volcano

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

vulcano (geologia)

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Etymology

From Vulcano (“Vulcano, a complex stratovolcano in the Mediterranean”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vulˈka.no/^[1]^[2]
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Homophone: Vulcano
Rhymes: -ano
Hyphenation: vul‧cà‧no

Noun

vulcano m (plural vulcani)

volcano

Derived terms

Descendants

Some may be semantic borrowings, based on existing words for the Roman god Vulcan. Others may be via an intermediate language rather than directly from Italian.

→ Albanian: vullkan
→ Aragonese: bolcán
→ Asturian: volcán
→ Azerbaijani: vulkan
→ Belarusian: вулкан (vulkan)
→ Bulgarian: вулкан (vulkan)
→ Corsican: volcanu, vulcanu
→ Czech: vulkán
→ Danish: vulkan
→ Emilian: vulcan
→ English: volcano, vulcano (obsolete)
- Bislama: volkeno
- → Mokilese: pwalikno
- → Scottish Gaelic: bholcàno
- → Swahili: volkano, volkeno
- → Ulithian: fal’keeno
→ Friulian: vulcan
→ Galician: volcán
→ Georgian: ვულკანი (vulḳani)
→ German: Vulkan
- → Hungarian: vulkán
→ Latvian: vulkāns
→ Luxembourgish: Vulkan
→ Macedonian: вулкан (vulkan)
→ Manx: volcaan
→ Middle Dutch: vulcaen
- Dutch: vulkaan
  - Afrikaans: vulkaan
  - → Indonesian: vulkan
→ Mirandese: bulcon
→ Norwegian: vulkan
→ Northern Kurdish: volkan
→ Neapolitan: vurcano
→ Piedmontese: vulcan
→ Polish: wulkan
→ Portuguese: vulcão
→ Romanian: vulcan
→ Romansh: vulcan
→ Russian: вулкан (vulkan)
→ Sardinian: vulcanu, burcanu
→ Serbo-Croatian: vulkan / вулкан
→ Slovak: vulkán
→ Slovene: vulkan
→ Spanish: volcán (see there for further descendants)
→ Swedish: vulkan
→ Ukrainian: вулкан (vulkan)
→ Uzbek: vulkan, vulqon
→ Venetan: volcan
→ Walloon: volcan
→ West Frisian: fulkaan
→ Yiddish: וווּלקאַן (vulkan)

References

^ “vulcano” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
^ “vulcano” in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

Portuguese

Noun

vulcano m (plural vulcanos)

obsolete form of vulcão

[1] “vulcano” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

[2] “vulcano” in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

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