flamme
Danish
Etymology
Loaned via German Flamme from Latin flamma
Noun
flamme c (singular definite flammen, plural indefinite flammer)
- flame
Declension
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | flamme | flammen | flammer | flammerne |
genitive | flammes | flammens | flammers | flammernes |
Synonyms
- lue c
Verb
flamme (imperative flam, infinitive at flamme, present tense flammer, past tense flammede, perfect tense flammet)
- to flame
Synonyms
- blusse
References
- “flamme” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French flame, whence English flame, from Latin flamma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flam/, /flɑm/
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Noun
flamme f (plural flammes)
- flame
- c'est en flammes ― it is in flames
- (figuratively) talent, brilliance
- (nautical) streamer (long, narrow flag)
Derived terms
- déclarer sa flamme
- enflammer
- flamme olympique
- flamme rouge
- Laflamme
- péter des flammes
- retour de flamme
- retour de flammes
- tout feu tout flamme
Verb
flamme
- inflection of flammer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “flamme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
flamme
- Alternative form of flawme
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin flamma, via German Flamme. The verb is from the noun.
Noun
flamme m (definite singular flammen, indefinite plural flammer, definite plural flammene)
- flame
Derived terms
- flammepunkt
Verb
flamme (imperative flam, present tense flammer, passive flammes, simple past and past participle flamma or flammet, present participle flammende)
- to blaze, flame
- flamme opp: to flare up, leap into flame
References
- “flamme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “flamme_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “flamme_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin flamma, via German Flamme.
Noun
flamme m (definite singular flammen, indefinite plural flammar, definite plural flammane)
flamme f (definite singular flamma, indefinite plural flammer, definite plural flammene)
- flame
Derived terms
- flammepunkt
Verb
flamme (present tense flammar, past tense flamma, past participle flamma, passive infinitive flammast, present participle flammande, imperative flam)
- to blaze, flame
- flamme opp: to flare up, leap into flame
Alternative forms
- flamma
References
- “flamme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.