Vulcanus

Vulcanus

1. Alternative form of Vulcan (“the god of volcanoes and fire”).
   • 1969 [1965], Sabine G Oswalt, “Aeneas”, in Concise Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (World Reference Library), Glasgow: Collins; Chicago, Ill.: Follett, →OCLC, page 16:

     Then Vulcanus, at the request of Venus, made a set of armour for Aeneas.

   • 1971 February 7, Hilda Cole Espy, Lex Creamer Jr., “Places to Gor for People Who Get All Fired Up Over Volcanoes”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 September 2025:

     It came on strong with blacksmith‐shop sound effects—“clang, clang”—and all who heard it and saw it light up the sky understood why Vulcanus, the Romans’ god of fire whose legendary blacksmith shop was deep in a mountain, gave his name to montanas que arden (mountains that burn).

   • 1988 December 24, James T. Yenckel, “Let It Snow! Celebrating the Cold at North America’s Winter Festivals”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Out of ancient Nordic legends come ice palaces, fierce mountain kings and lovely snow queens. In St. Paul,. Minn., King Boreas wages battle with Vulcanus, the fire god.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

• “Vulcan, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• Vulkanus (rarer spelling)
• Vulkan (dated)

From Latin Vulcānus. See Vulkan for more.

• IPA^(key): /vʊlˈkaːnʊs/

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

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

• Volcānus

Unknown; possibly borrowed via Etruscan from Doric Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos, “Velchanos, a Cretan god of nature and the netherworld”).^[1] More on Wikipedia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wʊɫˈkaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vulˈkaː.nus]

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.
2. a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to Sicily, in Italy

Second-declension noun.

“Vulcan” (Roman god of fire):

“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)

• “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.