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fulgere

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fulgēre.

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Verb

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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]‎[1], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 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

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

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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fulgēre

  1. present active infinitive of fulgeō

Etymology 2

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Verb

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fulgere

  1. present active infinitive of fulgō

Romanian

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fulgere

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