Translation
lightning
Word origin
From Latin fulmen, a thunderbolt, related to fulgere, to flash or shine. English keeps the root in fulminate, which began as a word for hurling lightning and ended as a word for shouting.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fulmen
- English cognates
- fulminate, refulgent
Examples
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Lightning flashed in the black sky.
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After the lightning came a great noise.
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The lightning struck the tall tree next to the house.
is the flash; the crash that follows it is . The verb fulmi describes the sky doing it, and fulmrapida - lightning-fast - is one of the compounds Esperanto reaches for most readily. A camera flash is a o.
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