fiamma
noun
fiamma is a noun meaning “A "flame structure" found in welded ignimbrite and tuff: a small, dark lens of glassy material (possibly pumice which was compressed or collapsed…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-A-M-M-A, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fiamma is fiamme.
What does fiamma mean?
noun
- 1
A "flame structure" found in welded ignimbrite and tuff: a small, dark lens of glassy material (possibly pumice which was compressed or collapsed during welding).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fiamma
- fiamme plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fiamma?
Fiamma appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fiamma come from?
Learned borrowing from Italian fiamma (“flame”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).