fulminant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulminate + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
Adjective
fulminant (not comparable)
- That fulminates.
- (especially medicine) Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
- 1983, Friedrich Deinhardt, Jean Deinhardt, editors, Viral Hepatitis: Laboratory and Clinical Science, Marcel Dekker, page 296:
- Fulminant hepatitis seems to be more common in females than in males (11). […] In contrast to common belief, Chalmers (17) has shown that physical exercise during infectious hepatitis does not increase the risk of a fulminant course of disease.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:
- When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.
Derived terms
Translations
coming on quickly and destructively
Noun
fulminant (plural fulminants)
- A thunderbolt.
- An explosive.
- 1893, Lowis Jalkson, Ten Centuries of European Progress, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, page 128:
- The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.
Catalan
Verb
fulminant
- gerund of fulminar
French
Participle
fulminant
- present participle of fulminer
Further reading
- “fulminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
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Adjective
fulminant (strong nominative masculine singular fulminanter, comparative fulminanter, superlative am fulminantesten)
Declension
Positive forms of fulminant
Comparative forms of fulminant
Superlative forms of fulminant
Further reading
Latin
Verb
fulminant
- third-person plural present active indicative of fulminō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fulminant.
Adjective
fulminant m or n (feminine singular fulminantă, masculine plural fulminanți, feminine and neuter plural fulminante)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | fulminant | fulminantă | fulminanți | fulminante | |||
| definite | fulminantul | fulminanta | fulminanții | fulminantele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | fulminant | fulminante | fulminanți | fulminante | |||
| definite | fulminantului | fulminantei | fulminanților | fulminantelor | ||||