fulmen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌlmən/

Noun

fulmen (plural fulmina)

1. (obsolete) A thunderbolt.
2. An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.

Related terms

• brutum fulmen

Latin

Etymology

From earlier *fulgimen, from Proto-Italic *folgamen, that is, fulgeō (“flash, glare, lighten”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈful.men/, [ˈfʊɫ̪mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈful.men/, [ˈfulmen]

Noun

fulmen n (genitive fulminis); third declension

1. lightning

   Synonyms: ictus, tonitrus

2. lightning that strikes or sets on fire; a thunderbolt
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.833–834:

     ille precābātur, tonitrū dedit ōmina laevō
     Iuppiter, et laevō fulmina missa polō.

     Those [are the] things he was praying [for]; Jupiter gave omens with thunder on the left, and thunderbolts having been sent from the leftward sky.
     (The prayers of Romulus for divine favor toward Rome are acknowledged by Jupiter.)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	fulmen	fulmina
genitive	fulminis	fulminum
dative	fulminī	fulminibus
accusative	fulmen	fulmina
ablative	fulmine	fulminibus
vocative	fulmen	fulmina

Derived terms

• fulminō
• fulmineus

Related terms

• fulgur

Descendants

• Friulian: fulmin
• Istriot: foûlmini
• Italian: fulmine
• Lombard: fulmen, fulmin
• Piedmontese: fùlmin
• Portuguese: fúlmen
• Sicilian: fùrmini
• Esperanto: fulmo

References

• “fulmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fulmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fulmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fulmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the lightning flashes: fulmina micant
    
  • the lightning has struck somewhere: fulmen locum tetigit
    
  • to be struck by lightning: fulmine tangi, ici
    
  • struck by lightning: fulmine ictus
    

Anagrams

• flūmen