English
Alternative forms
Noun
St. Elmo's fire (countable and uncountable, plural St. Elmo's fires)
- An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.
Synonyms
Translations
electrical discharge
- Afrikaans: Sint-Elmusvuur
- Czech: oheň svatého Eliáše
- Danish: Sanktelmsild
- Dutch: Sint-Elmusvuur
- Finnish: Elmon tuli (at sea); ukonvirva (on land)
- French: feu de Saint-Elme
- Galician: lume de San Telmo
- German: Elmsfeuer (de)
- Greek: Άγιοι Νικόληδες (Ágioi Nikólides)
- Hebrew: אש אלמו הקדוש
- Hungarian: Szent Elmo tüze
- Indonesian: api Santa Elmo
- Irish: gealán San Elmo
- Italian: fuoco di Sant'Elmo
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- Japanese: セントエルモの火 (sentoerumo no hi)
- Korean: 세인트 엘모의 불 (seinteu elmoui bul)
- Latin: corpus sanctum
- Mandarin: 聖艾爾摩之火
- Norwegian: Sankt Elms ild
- Polish: ognie świętego Elma (pl)
- Portuguese: fogo de santelmo
- Romanian: focul Sfântului Elmo
- Russian: Огни святого Эльма (Ogni svjatovo Elʹma)
- Serbo-Croatian: Ватра светог Елма
- Spanish: fuego de San Telmo
- Swedish: Sankt Elmseld
- Tagalog: igneyo, igneo
- Ukrainian: Вогні святого Ельма (Vohni svjatoho Elʹma)
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