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Vulcano vs Vulcan - What's the difference?

vulcano | vulcan |

As a proper noun vulcano

is vulcan.

As a noun vulcan is

volcano.

vulcano

English

Noun

(en-noun)
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    vulcan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , of (etyl) origin, but unknown meaning.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Roman god) The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, principally blacksmiths. The Roman counterpart of Hephaestus.
    • ''The goddess Venus was the wife of Vulcan .
  • (astronomy, historical) A hypothetical planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis.
  • A town in southern Alberta, Canada.
  • A ghost town in Colorado
  • An inactive volcano in New Mexico
  • A volcano in Papua New Guinea
  • A city and a few villages in Romania
    • Derived terms
    * Vulcanalia * Vulcanean / Vulcanian * vulcanic / Vulcanic * vulcanicity * vulcanism * vulcanist * vulcanite * vulcanization * vulcanize * vulcanological * vulcanologist * vulcanology
    Related terms
    * volcano
    See also
    * * *

    Etymology 2

    From Vulcan (etymology 1), from the TV series of the 1960s.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A fictional inhabited planet. (rfex)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, pejorative) A person who seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
    • English terms derived from Star Trek