Meaning of flamma | Babel Free

Definitions

1. flame, fire
   declension-1, feminine
2. A Roman cognomen — famously held by
   declension-1, masculine, singular
3. a fire or flame (of love or passion), love, passion, desire, heat, fury
   declension-1, feminine, figuratively
4. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   declension-1, masculine, singular
5. Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens, a Roman consul
   declension-1, masculine, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.”

He threatened the city with fire and sword.

““‘ […] animumque explēsse iuvābit”

“‘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.)

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