fiamma
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Italian fiamma (“flame”).
Noun
fiamma (plural fiamme)
- (volcanology) A "flame structure" found in welded ignimbrite and tuff: a small, dark lens of glassy material (possibly pumice which was compressed or collapsed during welding).
- 1966, Bulletin Volcanologique, page 88:
- […] black glass from "fiamma" of ignimbrites from Zavaritzkiy caldera in Simushir Is.
- 1993, Jocelyn McPhie, Mark Doyle, Rodney Leslie Allen, Volcanic Textures: A Guide to the Interpretation of Textures, page 135:
- […] the largest fiamma in the centre of the photograph has responded in a brittle fashion to […]
- 1993, Alexander R. McBirney, Igneous Petrology, page 359:
- […] lenticular "fiamme" of dense black glass. In (d), devitrification has produced radiating spherulites that have grown outward from centers around phenocrysts and across the original shards of glass.
- 2008, Kenneth Thomson, Nick Petford, Structure and Emplacement of High-level Magmatic Systems, page 214:
- […] total phenocryst content in fiamme of pyroclastic rocks and in matrix of coherent rhyolitic rocks; data see Tables 1 and 2; (d) aspect ratio v. maximum particle size (mps) of fiamme (note: this diagram shows field measurements not presented in tables […]
- 1966, Bulletin Volcanologique, page 88:
Italian
Etymology
From Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flāgmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₂gmeh₂, derived from an extension of the root *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Compare French flamme, Portuguese chama, Spanish llama.
Pronunciation
Noun
fiamma f (plural fiamme)
- flame (part of fire)
- (figurative) flame (romantic partner)
- (figurative) flame (burning sentiment)
- (nautical) pennant, pennon
- (military) flash
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Noun
fiamma m (invariable)
- (siderurgy) a worker who cuts metal using a cutting torch
- Synonyms: bruciaferro, fiammista, ossigenista
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