vulcan
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• noun
In ancient Roman mythology, the god of fire, including the destructive fire of volcanoes and wildfires, as well as the forge and metalworking, identified with the Greek god Hephaestus (usually capitalized).
"Ancient Roman smiths and artisans honored Vulcan at the annual festival of the Volcanalia to protect their workshops and granaries from destructive fires."
A small, hypothetical planet once proposed in the nineteenth century to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun to explain irregularities in Mercury's orbit (usually capitalized).
"Astronomers searched in vain for the hypothetical planet Vulcan until Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity accurately explained the shift in Mercury's orbit."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Vulcanus (or Volcanus), the name of the ancient Roman god of fire, volcanoes, and metalworking, which also gave rise to the English words 'volcano' and 'vulcanize'.
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