fulminant

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (strike like lightning).

Adjective[edit]

fulminant (not comparable)

  1. That fulminates.
  2. (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.

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

fulminant (plural fulminants)

  1. A thunderbolt.
  2. An explosive.

Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

fulminant

  1. gerund of fulminar

French[edit]

Participle[edit]

fulminant

  1. present participle of fulminer

Further reading[edit]

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Adjective[edit]

fulminant (strong nominative masculine singular fulminanter, comparative fulminanter, superlative am fulminantesten)

  1. splendid, furious
  2. (pathology) fulminant

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • fulminant” in Duden online
  • fulminant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

fulminant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of fulminō

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fulminant.

Adjective[edit]

fulminant m or n (feminine singular fulminantă, masculine plural fulminanți, feminine and neuter plural fulminante)

  1. fulminant

Declension[edit]