fulg- +

(Latin: to shine, to flash, to glow, to burn)


circumfulgent
Shining around or about.
effulge
1. To shine forth; to beam.
2. To cause to shine with an abundance of light; to radiate; to beam.
effulgence
1. Radiance; brightness.
2. A brilliant radiance.
3. The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.
effulgent
1. Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid.
2. Radiant; brilliant; shining forth brilliantly; resplendent.
fulgency
Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence.
fulgent
Shining brightly; dazzling; gleaming brilliantly, resplendent; such as, fulgent patterns of sunlight; or "a tower of searchlights; as fulgent as half a billion candles.
fulgently
Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
fulgid
Glittering, shining.
interfulgent
Shining between.
prefulgency
Superior brightness or effulgency.
profulgent
Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.
refulgence, refulgency
1. Shining radiantly; resplendent; a radiant or resplendent quality or state; brilliance.
2. The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light; brilliancy; splender; radiance.
refulgent
1. Shining radiantly; resplendent.
2. Shining brilliantly or splendidly.
3. Shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: "Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball."
4. Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; such as, refulgent beams.

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; luna, luni-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.


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