flawme

From Old French flame, from Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flagmā. Some forms influenced by Old French flambe, flamble, from Latin flammula.

• flaume, flaumbe, flambe, flame, flaumme, flamme, flawmbe

• IPA^(key): /ˈflau̯m(ə)/, /ˈflam(ə)/, /ˈflaːm(ə)/, /ˈflau̯mb(ə)/, /ˈflamb(ə)/

flawme (plural flawmes)

1. A flame; a visible tongue of gas and vapour forming part of a fire.
2. Fire (in the abstract or an individual instance of fire)
3. Intensity of belief or passion; the magnitude of one's emotional output.
4. (rare) A kind of flowering plant with fiery-coloured petals.

• flawmen
• flawmy

• English: flame
• Scots: flam

• “flaume (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.

From Old French flamber.

flawme

1. Alternative form of flawmen