vulcano

vulcano (plural vulcanos or vulcanoes)

1. Obsolete form of volcano.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184:

     CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name...

• “vulcano”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• unvocal

vulcano (plural vulcanos)

1. volcano

From Vulcano (“a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan”).

• IPA^(key): /vulˈka.no/

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: vul‧cà‧no

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vulcano m (plural vulcani)

1. volcano

Some may be semantic borrowings, based on existing words for the Roman god Vulcan. Others may be via an intermediate language rather than directly from Italian.

• Efesto
• montagna
• monte

vulcano m (plural vulcanos)

1. obsolete form of vulcão