Other forms: flames
A flame is the bright burning part of a fire. A naked flame, the flame went out, burst into flames.
It is burning gas rather than burning fuel, which is why a candle wick needs the wax to vaporise first. An old flame is a former lover, and to flame somebody online is to attack them in writing.
1nounflameThe bright burning part of a fire.
“She lit the candle and watched the flame flicker in the draught.”
flame is a fire.
Latin flamma means a flame, from a root meaning to burn or blaze.
Middle English
flawme
English, today
flame
From Middle English flawme. From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin fladma; Proto-Italic flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-* (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native līeġ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA