fulminant
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”).
Adjective
[edit]fulminant (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
[edit]coming on quickly and destructively
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Noun
[edit]fulminant (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
[edit]Verb
[edit]fulminant
French
[edit]Participle
[edit]fulminant
Further reading
[edit]- “fulminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fulminant (strong nominative masculine singular fulminanter, comparative fulminanter, superlative am fulminantesten)
Declension
[edit]Positive forms of fulminant
Comparative forms of fulminant
Superlative forms of fulminant
Further reading
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]fulminant
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)
Declension
[edit]Declension 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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