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volcano

The Roman fire god Vulcan gave his name to Vulcano, a smoking island north of Sicily; Italian then used vulcano for any fire mountain and passed it across Europe. Sicilian gave Arabic burkān, and Modern Greek renamed volcanoes after its own fire god, Hephaestus.

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