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
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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
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 | ||||