fulmine

See also: fulminé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulminō (lighten, illuminate). More at fulminate.

Verb

fulmine (third-person singular simple present fulmines, present participle fulmining, simple past and past participle fulmined)

  1. (archaic) To thunder or lightning.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      And ever and anone the rosy red / Flasht through her face, as it had been a flake / Of lightning through bright heven fulmined []
  2. (archaic, figuratively) To utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.
    • Tennyson
      She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

Anagrams


French

Pronunciation

Verb

fulmine

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fulminer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fulminer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fulminer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fulminer
  5. second-person singular imperative of fulminer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fulminem, accusative form of fulmen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈful.mi.ne/, [ˈful̺min̺e]
  • Rhymes: -ulmine
  • Hyphenation: fùl‧mi‧ne

Noun

fulmine m (plural fulmini)

  1. lightning

Synonyms

See also


Latin

Noun

fulmine

  1. ablative singular of fulmen

Spanish

Verb

fulmine

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fulminar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fulminar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fulminar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fulminar.
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