fuligo

See also: Fuligo

Latin

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂li-, from the root *dʰewh₂- (“to blow; wind, vapor, smoke”). Cognate with Lithuanian dūlis (“fog”). See also Latin furvus (“dark, swarthy”) and fūmus (“smoke”). For the terminal element, compare -īgō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːˈliː.ɡoː/, [fuːˈlʲiːɡoː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈli.ɡo/, [fuˈliːɡo]

Noun

fūlīgō f (genitive fūlīginis); third declension

soot, lampblack

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūlīgō	fūlīginēs
Genitive	fūlīginis	fūlīginum
Dative	fūlīginī	fūlīginibus
Accusative	fūlīginem	fūlīginēs
Ablative	fūlīgine	fūlīginibus
Vocative	fūlīgō	fūlīginēs

Descendants

Aragonese: follín
Aromanian: fulidzini, furidzinã
→ French: fuligine
Galician: feluxe, fuluxe
Italian: fuliggine
Portuguese: fuligem
Romanian: funingine
Sardinian: foddine, puddini
Sicilian: fulìnija, filìnija
Spanish: hollín; → fuligo
Translingual: Fuligo

References

“fuligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fuligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fuligo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
fuligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“fūlīgō” on page 744/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)