Vulcanus
German
Alternative forms
- Vulkanus (rarer spelling)
- Vulkan (dated)
Etymology
From Latin Vulcanus. See Vulkan for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vʊlˈkaːnʊs/
Proper noun
Vulcanus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Vulcanus' or Vulcanus)
- (mythology) Vulcan (Roman god of fire)
Latin
Alternative forms
- Volcānus
Etymology
"Extremely obscure", with many hypotheses; some speculate of borrowing from a Mediterranean language.[1]
A longstanding theory linking the name to the Biblical Tubal-cain (who bears uncanny similarity in characteristics and relations to Vulcan) has not been totally discounted. See further info, context and proposals at discussion on StackExchange.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯ulˈkaː.nus/, [u̯ʊɫ̪ˈkäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vulˈka.nus/, [vulˈkäːnus]
Proper noun
Vulcānus m (genitive Vulcānī); second declension
- The god of fire and metalworking, Vulcan
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Vulcānus | Vulcānī |
| Genitive | Vulcānī | Vulcānōrum |
| Dative | Vulcānō | Vulcānīs |
| Accusative | Vulcānum | Vulcānōs |
| Ablative | Vulcānō | Vulcānīs |
| Vocative | Vulcāne | Vulcānī |
Descendants
“Vulcan” (Roman god of fire):
- Armenian: Վուլկան (Vulkan)
- Basque: Vulkano
- Belarusian: Вулкан (Vulkan)
- Bulgarian: Вулкан (Vulkan)
- Catalan: Vulcà
- Czech: Vulkán
- Danish: Vulkan
- Dutch: Vulcaan (obsolete)
- English: Vulcan
- French: Vulcain
- German: Vulkan
- Greek: Βουλκάνους (Voulkánous), Βούλκαν (Voúlkan)
- Galician: Vulcano
- Irish: Bolcán
- Italian: Vulcano
- Japanese: ウゥルカーヌス (Wurukānusu)
- Korean: 불카누스 (bulkanuseu)
- Latvian: Vulkāns
- Lithuanian: Vulkanas
- Macedonian: Вулкан (Vulkan)
- Manx: Vulcaan
- Neapolitan: Vurcano
- Norwegian: Vulkan
- Occitan: Vulcan
- Portuguese: Vulcano
- Polish: Wulkan
- Romanian: Vulcan
- Russian: Вулкан (Vulkan)
- Serbo-Croatian: Vulkan / Вулкан
- Sicilian: Vurcanu
- Slovak: Vulkán
- Slovene: Vulkan
- Spanish: Vulcano
- Ukrainian: Вулкан (Vulkan)
- Welsh: Fwlcan
“Vulcano” (a small volcanic island north of Sicily; named for the Roman belief that it was the chimney of Vulcan):
- Italian: Vulcano
- Sicilian: Vurcanu
“volcano” (named for the island of Vulcano):
- Italian: vulcano (see there for further descendants)
- Sicilian: vurcanu (see there for further descendants)
References
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “Vulcanus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 825
Further reading
- “Vulcanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press