Latin

Alternative forms

• Volturnus

The river in Capua

Proper noun

Vulturnus m ‎(genitive Vulturnī); second declension

1. A river in Campania, now the Volturno

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

• Vulturnum

Adjective

Vulturnus m ‎(feminine Vulturna, neuter Vulturnum); first/second declension

1. of or belonging to the river which is now the Volturno; Vulturnian

Inflection

First/second declension.

Etymology 2

Probably ultimately related to vertō; earlier likely an Etruscan deity, perhaps also the namesake of the city Volturnum, now Capua.

Proper noun

Vulturnus m ‎(genitive Vulturnī); second declension

1. A Roman divinity, one of the Di indigetes, served by the flamen vulturnalis; perhaps the same as Vertumnus

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• Vulturnālis, Volturnālis
• Vulturnālia

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• vulturnus

Proper noun

Vulturnus m ‎(genitive Vulturnī); second declension

1. The south-east wind or the east wind, depending on the source
   • 3rd c. AD, Lucius Ampelius, Liber Memorialis IV

     Venti fiunt ex aeris motu et inclinatione. Sunt autem generales quattuor: eurus, idem apheliotes, idem vulturnus ab oriente; ab occidente zephyrus, idem corus, idem favonius; aquilo, idem boreas, aparctias idem, a septentrione; notus, idem libs et auster et africus a meridie.

     Winds are caused by the motion and direction of air. Principally there are four winds, Eurus, that is Apheliotes or Vulturnus from the east; from the west, Zephyrus, or Corus or Favonius; Aquilo, or Boreas or Aparctias from the north; and Notus, that is Lips, Auster or Africus from the south.

   • c. 79 CE, Pliny Maior, Naturalis Historiae II.119

     Sunt ergo bini in quattuor caeli partibus, ab oriente aequinoctiali subsolanus, ab oriente brumali vulturnus.

     Then each quarter of the sky is taken in half, so that [from the north-east, where the sun rises] by summer comes Subsolanus, from [the south-east where the sun rises] by winter comes Vulturnus.

2. (rare) the south-east, or east direction, depending on the source
   • c. 995 CE, Richerus, Historiarum Libri Quatuor III.71

     Aeream aquilam quae in vertice palatii a Karolo magno acsi volans fixa erat, in vulturnum converterunt. Nam Germani eam in favonium converterant, subtiliter significantes Gallos suo equitatu quandoque posse devinci.

     They rotated the bronze eagle into the East Wind, which had been fixed at the top of the palace by Charlemagne as though aloft. For the Germans had turned it into the West Wind keenly to remind the French they could be beaten anytime by their cavalry.

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• Vulturnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Vulturnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Latin

Noun

vulturnus m ‎(genitive vulturnī); second declension

1. Alternative letter-case form of Vulturnus

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Catalan: botorn
• Spanish: bochorno

References

• vulturnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vulturnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• vulturnus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vulturnus in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly