different between authority vs fulmine

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulmin? (“lighten, illuminate”). More at fulminate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?lm?n/

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.

   • She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

Anagrams

• mineful

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fulminent, fulmines

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. third-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): /?ful.mi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ulmine
• Hyphenation: fùl?mi?ne

Noun

fulmine m (plural fulmini)

1. lightning

   Synonyms: folgore, saetta

Related terms

• fulminante
• fulminare
• fulminato
• fulminazione
• fulmineo
• fulminio

See also

• tuono

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.