The corpus record — Latin

fulguro

to lighten

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fulgŭro — Lewis & Short

fulgŭro, āre,

I v. impers. [id.], to lighten (less freq. than fulgeo; in many MSS. the reading oscillates between the two words; cf. Spald. and Zumpt ad Quint. 2, 16, 19, and Mos. and Orell. ad Cic. N. D. 2, 25, 65).

I Lit.: noctu magis quam interdiu sine tonitribus fulgurat, Plin. 2, 54, 55, § 145: ex omnibus partibus caeli, id. 18, 35, 81, § 354: Jove tonante, fulgurante comitia populi habere nefas, Cic. Div. 2, 18, 43 Orell. N. cr.: fulgurat, cum repentinum late lumen emicuit, Sen. Q. N. 2, 57, 1.—

II Trop.

A Of oratory (cf. fulgeo, I. B.): fulgurat in ullo umquam verius dicta vis eloquentiae? Plin. H. N. praef. § 5; Quint. 2, 16, 19 (v. fulgeo, I. B.), Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 19.—

B To flash, glitter, glisten, shine (poet.): vetitoque domus jam fulgurat auro, Stat. Th. 4, 191: cernis, oculis qui fulgurat ignis! Sil. 12, 723.—Part.: fulgŭrātus, a, um, pass. only as subst. plur.: fulgŭrāta, orum, n., things struck by lightning: omnibus fulguratis odor sulphuris inest, Sen. Q. N. 2, 21, 2.

Where it came from

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