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fulgere

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulgēre.

Pronunciation

Verb

fùlgere (first-person singular present fùlgo, first-person singular past historic fùlsi, no past participle)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) to shine, sparkle, glitter, flash
    Synonyms: (literary) rifulgere, risplendere
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Fulgeami già in fronte la corona
      di quella terra che ’l Danubio riga
      poi che le ripe tedesche abbandona.
      Already flashed upon my brow the crown of that dominion which the Danube waters after the German borders it abandons.

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Further reading

  • fùlgere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

fulgēre

  1. present active infinitive of fulgeō

Etymology 2

Verb

fulgere

  1. present active infinitive of fulgō

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

fulgere

  1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of fulgera

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