flamma

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”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫam.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflam.ma]

flamma f (genitive flammae); first declension

1. flame, fire

   Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.

   He threatened the city with fire and sword.

2. (figuratively) a fire or flame (of love or passion), love, passion, desire, heat, fury
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.586–587:

     “‘ […] animumque explēsse iuvābit
     ultrīcis flammae, et cinerēs satiāsse meōrum.’”

     “‘And it will feel good to fill my soul [with] flames of vengeance, and [thus] to appease the ashes of my [people].’”
     (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.)

First-declension noun.

• (flame, fire): ignis

• “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flamma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “flamma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be devoured by the flames: flammis corripi
    
• “flamma”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

flamma

1. simple past and past participle of flamme

• flammet

Borrowed from Latin flamma.

flamma f

1. flame

• Middle Dutch: vlamme
  • Dutch: vlam
    • Afrikaans: vlam
    • Negerhollands: vlam

• “flamma”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Old French flame.

flamma c

1. a flame
2. a woman, a romance

• flammig (“blotchy”)

flamma (present flammar, preterite flammade, supine flammat, imperative flamma)

1. to blaze, to flame
2. (with "upp") flare up

• “flamma”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)