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Definitions: Ignis Fatuus |
Ignis FatuusNoun1. A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground. 2. An illusion that misleads. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Fire from spontaneous methane combustion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Ignis Fatuus means strictly a fatuous fire it is also called "Jack o' Lantern," "Spunkie," "Walking Fire," "Will o' the Wisp," and "Fair Maid of Ireland." Milton calls it Friar's Lanthern, and Sir Walter Scott Friar Rush with a lantern. Morally speaking, a Utopian scheme, no more reducible to practice than the meteor so called can be turned to any useful end. (Plural, Ignes fatui.) (See Friars Lanthorn.) "When thou annest up Gadshill in the night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou hadst been an ignis fatuas or a ball of wildfire, there's no purchase in money." - Shakespeare: ` Henry IV., iii. 3. According to a Russian superstition, these wandering fires are the spirits of still-born children which flit between heaven and the Inferno. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Ignis FatuusSynonyms: friar's lantern (n), jack-o'-lantern (n), will-o'-the-wisp (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Illusion; (error); ignis fatuus; mirage. |
Unsubstantiality | Shadow; phantom;(fallacy of vision); dream; (imagination); ignis fatuus; (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of "; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision "; mockery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ignis Fatuus |
| English words defined with "ignis fatuus": Death fire ♦ Elf fire ♦ friar's lantern ♦ Ignes fatui ♦ Night fire. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ignis fatuus": goblin. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Emily Dickinson | The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all. |
John Wilmot | Reason, which fifty times to one does err, reason, an ignis fatuus of the mind. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "ignis fatuus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpresë e gënjeshtërt (ignis). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | блуждаещ огън (fen fire, wildfire, will-o'-the-wisp), измамлива цел (will-o'-the-wisp), измамлива надежда (will-o'-the-wisp), измамлив идеал. (various references) | |
Czech | bludièka (jack-o'-lantern). (various references) | |
Danish | spontan antændelse (fen fire). (various references) | |
Dutch | dwaallicht (fen fire). (various references) | |
Finnish | virvatuli (fen fire, will-o'-the wisp). (various references) | |
French | feu follet. (various references) | |
German | Irrlicht (fen fire, wisp), Spontanentzündung (fen fire). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lidércfény (fen fire, friar's lantern, jack-o'-lantern, wildfire, will-o'-the-wisp). (various references) | |
Italian | fuoco fatuo (fen fire). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 燐火 (phosphorous light, will-o'-the-wisp). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | り"か (automobile accident, neighbouring house, phosphorous light, traffic accident, will-o'-the-wisp). (various references) | |
Manx | foaddan curree, chenney cheabane (Will-o'-the-Wisp). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ignisay atuusfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fogo fátuo (fen fire). (various references) | |
Russian | блуждающий огонек (fen fire, fen-fire, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, will-o-the-wisp). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | želja vodilja. (various references) | |
Spanish | fuego fatuo (fen fire, wildfire). (various references) | |
Swedish | irrbloss (fen fire, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp), spontan antändning (fen fire). (various references) | |
Turkish | boş amaç, bataklık gazlarının ateşi, bataklık ışığı (jack-o'-lantern), aldatıcı şey. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ma trơi hy vọng hão huyền, ảo tưởng (chimerical, fallacy, phantasm, visional). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-i-n-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: fastings, fuguists, fustians, siftings, suitings, tissuing. | |
-4 letters: fasting, fisting, fuguist, fusains, fussing, fustian, isatins, issuant, issuing, sifting, suiting, sunfast, sunsuit, sustain. | |
-5 letters: agists, angsts, assign, august, fagins, faints, fating, fungus, fusain, fusing, gainst, giants, insist, isatin, saints, sating, satins, siting, snafus, staigs, stains, stangs, stings, suints, unfits, unguis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 67 6E 69 73 46 61 74 75 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100111 01101110 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000110 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I g n i s   F a t u u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0067 006E 0069 0073 0046 0061 0074 0075 0075 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43738075852406786878785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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