Noun: flamma
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | flamma |
| Plural | flammae |
Genitive
| Singular | flammae |
| Plural | flammārum |
Dative
| Singular | flammae |
| Plural | flammīs |
Accusative
| Singular | flammam |
| Plural | flammās |
Ablative
| Singular | flammā |
| Plural | flammīs |
Vocative
| Singular | flamma |
| Plural | flammae |
Sample Sentences
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Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est. (He threatened the city with fire and sword.)
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“‘[…] animumque explēsse iuvābit (“‘And it will feel good to fill my soul [with] flames of vengeance, and [thus] to appease the ashes of my [people].’”
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(Aeneas recalls the fall of Troy, the city afire, and how he considered whether to kill Helen “in the heat of the moment”; i.e., extreme emotion feels like a fire within the body. Syncope: explevisse, satiavisse; substitution: ultricis for ultionis.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.586–587]
Nouns inflected like flamma
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *flagmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥-g-mh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥g- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Compare flagrō (“to blaze”) and fulgō (“to flash, shine”) from the same root, as well as Ancient Greek φλογμός (phlogmós, “flame”).
Verbs referencing "flamma"
English Nouns
flame, English Nouns
flamingo, Dutch Nouns
flamingo, Portuguese Nouns
flamingo, Danish Nouns
flamme, French Nouns
flamme, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
flamme, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
flamme, German Nouns
Flamme, Italian Nouns
fiamma, Dutch Nouns
vlam, Galician Nouns
chama, Portuguese Nouns
chama, Catalan Nouns
flama, Italian Nouns
flammatura, Middle English Nouns
flawme, English Nouns
flammagenitus.
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