fullo

Catalan

Verb

fullo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fullar

Gothic

Romanization

fullō

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍉

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”),^[1] or from Etruscan 𐌖𐌋𐌖𐌘 (fulu) and the variant 𐌖𐌋𐌖𐌇 (hulu).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈful.loː/, [ˈfʊlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈful.lo/, [ˈfulːo]

Noun

fullō m (genitive fullōnis); third declension

1. fuller (person who fulls cloth)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fullō	fullōnēs
genitive	fullōnis	fullōnum
dative	fullōnī	fullōnibus
accusative	fullōnem	fullōnēs
ablative	fullōne	fullōnibus
vocative	fullō	fullōnēs

Descendants

• French: foulon
• Galician: folón
• Italian: fullone, follone
• ⇒ English: fuller
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fullāre
  • French: fouler
  • Italian: follare
  • Spanish: follar (obsolete), hollar

References

1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume I, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Further reading

• “fullo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fullo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fullo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fullo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “fullo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old High German

Alternative forms

• folle

Adverb

fullo

1. fully

References

1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Swedish

Noun

fullo ?

1. Only used in till fullo