different between vulcano vs volcano

English

Noun

vulcano (plural vulcanos or vulcanoes)

1. Obsolete form of volcano.

Anagrams

• unvocal

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vul?ka.no/

Noun

vulcano m (plural vulcani)

1. volcano

Derived terms

See also

• Efesto
• montagna
• monte

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