volcan

From Middle French volcan and its etymon Spanish volcán.^[1]

volcan (plural volcans)

1. Archaic form of volcano.
   • 1893, H. Rider Haggard, Montezuma's Daughter:

     Now as I gazed the light began to creep down the sides of the volcans, revealing the forests on their flanks.

Probably borrowed through Italian vulcano and Spanish volcán, from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan”).

• IPA^(key): /vɔl.kɑ̃/

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volcan m (plural volcans)

1. volcano

• volcanique
• volcanisme
• volcanologie
• volcanologue

• Antillean Creole: vòlkan
• Haitian Creole: vòlkan
• → Irish: bolcán
  • → Fingallian: bolcane
    • → English: bolcane
• → Turkish: volkan

• “volcan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

volcan m (plural volcani)

1. obsolete form of vulcan

• volcan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /vɔl.kã/

volcan m (plural volcans)

1. volcano