tonitruate
English
editEtymology
editFrom the past participle stem of Latin tonitruare (“to thunder”), from tonitrus (“thunder”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittonitruate (third-person singular simple present tonitruates, present participle tonitruating, simple past and past participle tonitruated)
- (rare, intransitive) To thunder.
- 1733 August, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 412:
- […] yet through the caliginous sublimity of internexed conundrums, tonitruating with obstreperous cadencies, you rather obfuscate than illuminate our A-b-c-darian conceptions […]
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- Stertile thunder tonitruated terribly. ‘Oh Lord forgive us our bloody sins.’ Rain now pelted. It was hard work finding a taxi.