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Fiume
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fiume
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en it Fiume, from en la Flūmen, from la flūmen river.
Proper noun
en chiefly historical potentially _ offensive en Rijeka, en city c/Croatia a.
en Dominique Kirchner Reill The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire Cambridge The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=njkEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 2020018506 9780674244245 Christmas 1920 was not what locals had come to anticipate in Fiume, the industrial port town in the northeast corner of the Adriatic Sea.
en historical en former polity continent/Europe between 19201924.
Usage notes
Use of the name Fiume to describe modern en Rijeka may be understood as supporting irredentist Italian claims to the city and its hinterland.
Synonyms
polity en Free State of Fiume
en Cities in Italy Places in Italy History of Italy City-states
Hungarian
hu:
Etymology
Borrowed from hu it Fiume, from hu la Flūmen, from la flūmen river.
Pronunciation
hu Fi u me
hu mɛ 2
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu city c/Croatia Rijeka
hu Szentvit dated
Declension
Fiumé o sgFiumé sg
Derived terms
hu fiumei
hu exonyms
Italian
it:+
Etymology
it ine-pro *bʰlewH-
From it la Flūmen, from la flūmen river. See it fiume for more.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
f
it city c/Croatia Rijeka
Derived terms
it fiumano
it exonyms