fulgor

English

Alternative forms

• fulgour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.

Noun

fulgor (usually uncountable, plural fulgors)

1. Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:

     She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fulgor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Italian

Noun

fulgor m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of fulgore

Latin

Etymology

fulgeō (“I flash, lighten”) +‎ -or (abstract noun suffix). A later formation compared to fulgur.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊɫ.ɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈful.ɡor]

Noun

fulgor m (genitive fulgōris); third declension

1. lightning

   Synonyms: fulgur, fulgetrum, fulgurātiō, fulmen

2. flash, glitter, gleam, brightness, splendour

   Synonyms: fulgur, clāritas̄, clāritūdō, nitor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fulgor	fulgōrēs
genitive	fulgōris	fulgōrum
dative	fulgōrī	fulgōribus
accusative	fulgōrem	fulgōrēs
ablative	fulgōre	fulgōribus
vocative	fulgor	fulgōrēs

Related terms

• fulgeō
• fulgur
• fulmen

Descendants

• Italian: folgore, → fulgore
• → English: fulgor
• → Galician: fulgor
• → Portuguese: fulgor
• → Spanish: fulgor

References

• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN