vulcanian
/vəlˈkeɪniən/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
Meaning
adj
Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
adj
Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
Obsolete
adj
Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.
Literary
adj
Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
Archaic
adj
Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
Archaic
adj
Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, volcanic, of or related to volcanoes and volcanism.
Archaic
adj
Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.
Example Sentences
- "...Nor cou'd Vulcanian Flame The Stench abolish; or the Savour tame..."
- "Yet Muto, like a good Vulcanian, An honest Cuckold, calls the bastard sonne, And brags of that which others for him done."
- "A sabre, when the warrior press'd to part,"
- "Solinus reports it of the Vulcanian Hill in Sicily, that they which offered Sacrifice upon it, never put fire to it, but expected it should be kindled from Heaven."
- "In his six lectures on Volcanos, [Faujas] exhausted the subject, and showed us the difference of the several systems, the Vulcanian, the Neptunian, and the Huttonian, which is the Plutonian, and his own opinion."
- "The Vulcanian or Plutonian theory, which ascribes the changes on earth's surface to the agency of fire."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /vəlˈkeɪniən/
- British English: /vʌlˈkeɪnɪən/