santelmo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• Hyphenation: san‧tel‧mo

santelmo m (plural santelmos)

1. Synonym of fogo de Santelmo

• IPA^(key): /sanˈtelmo/ [sãn̪ˈt̪el.mo]
• Rhymes: -elmo
• Syllabification: san‧tel‧mo

santelmo m (plural santelmos)

1. St. Elmo's fire

   Synonym: fuego de San Telmo

• “santelmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Spanish santelmo, from fuego de San Telmo (“St. Elmo's fire”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /sanˈtelmo/ [sɐn̪ˈt̪ɛl.mo]
• Rhymes: -elmo
• Syllabification: san‧tel‧mo

santelmo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜎ᜔ᜋᜓ)

1. St. Elmo's fire

   Synonym: igneo

2. (folklore) fireball or flame spirit, similar to the will o' the wisp, that stalks or chases people at night, and believed to be formed from the ignited blood of a person who tragically died

• “santelmo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018