Vulcanus

German

Alternative forms

• Vulkanus (rarer spelling)
• Vulkan (dated)

Etymology

From Latin Vulcānus. See Vulkan for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vʊlˈkaːnʊs/

Proper noun

Vulcanus m (proper noun, strong, genitive Vulcanus' or Vulcanus)

1. (mythology) Vulcan (Roman god of fire)

Latin

Alternative forms

• Volcānus

Etymology

Unknown; possibly borrowed via Etruscan from Doric Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ulˈkaː.nus/, [u̯ʊɫ̪ˈkäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vulˈka.nus/, [vulˈkäːnus]

Proper noun

Vulcānus m (genitive Vulcānī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and various German and Celtic gods.

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

Derived terms

• Vulcānālia
• Vulcāniānus
• Vulcānius

 

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)

Further reading

• “Vulcānus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Vulcānus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.