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English

Alternative forms

• vulcano (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian vulcano and French volcan, from Latin Vulcanus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?no?/, /v?l?ke?no?/

Noun

volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos)

1. A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
2. A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

Hypernyms

• mountain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crater
• lava
• lava flow
• magma
• vent

Verb

volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes, present participle volcanoing, simple past and past participle volcanoed)

1. to erupt; to burst forth
   • 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child

     She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

   • 2012, George Pratt, ?Peter Lambrou, ?John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness

     Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

Further reading

• volcano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

French

Noun

salse (plural salses)

1. A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts.

Anagrams

• LSASE, SEALs, Sales, Seals, assle, lases, sales, seals

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?salse/

Verb

salse

1. to salt

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Italian

Adjective

salse

1. feminine plural of salso

Anagrams

• lasse, lessa

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

sals? (comparative salsius, superlative salsissim?)

1. wittily

Etymology 2

Adjective

salse

1. vocative masculine singular of salsus

References

• salse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

salse

1. Alternative form of sauce

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German salzen, Dutch zouten, English salt.

Verb

salse

1. to salt