fulgor

• fulgour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin fulgor.

fulgor (usually uncountable, plural fulgors)

1. Splendor, splendour; dazzling brightness.
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Lord Jim:

     She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fulgor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

fulgor m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of fulgore

From fulgeō (“to flash, lighten”) + -or (abstract noun suffix). A later formation compared to fulgur.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊɫ.ɡɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈful.ɡor]

fulgor m (genitive fulgōris); third declension

1. lightning

   Synonyms: fulgur, fulgetrum, fulgurātiō, fulmen

2. flash, glitter, gleam, brightness, splendour

   Synonyms: fulgur, clāritas̄, clāritūdō, nitor

Third-declension noun.

• fulgeō
• fulgur
• fulmen

• Italian: folgore, → fulgore
• → English: fulgor
• → Galician: fulgor
• → Portuguese: fulgor
• → Spanish: fulgor

• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fulgor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Latin fulgor.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /fulˈɡoɾ/ [fulˈɣ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ful‧gor

fulgor m (plural fulgores)

1. shine, glow, splendor

   Synonyms: brillo, esplendor

• “fulgor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025