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Etymology

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

Adjective

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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

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Noun

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fulminant (plural fulminants)

  1. A thunderbolt.
  2. An explosive.

Catalan

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Verb

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fulminant

  1. gerund of fulminar

French

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Participle

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fulminant

  1. present participle of fulminer

Further reading

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German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. splendid, furious
  2. (pathology) fulminant

Declension

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Further reading

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

Latin

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Verb

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fulminant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of fulminō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French fulminant.

Adjective

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

  1. fulminant

Declension

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