fulminant
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”).
Adjective
editfulminant (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.
Translations
editcoming on quickly and destructively
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Noun
editfulminant (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
editVerb
editfulminant
French
editParticiple
editfulminant
Further reading
edit- “fulminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editfulminant (strong nominative masculine singular fulminanter, comparative fulminanter, superlative am fulminantesten)
Declension
editPositive forms of fulminant
Comparative forms of fulminant
Superlative forms of fulminant
Further reading
editLatin
editVerb
editfulminant
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French fulminant.
Adjective
editfulminant m or n (feminine singular fulminantă, masculine plural fulminanți, feminine and neuter plural fulminante)
Declension
editDeclension of fulminant
singular | plural | ||||||
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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 |
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