different between fulminate vs fulmine

English

Etymology

From Latin fulmin?tus, past participle of fulmin? (“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulge?, fulg? (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?lm?ne?t/

Verb

fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
   • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)

     They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.

   • 1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease (page 46)

     In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]

3. (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
4. (transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:

     the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

Synonyms

• (verbal attack): berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify

Translations

Noun

fulminate (plural fulminates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:

     On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.

Translations

Related terms

• fulmination
• fulminator
• fulminatory
• fulminic
• mercury fulminate
• silver fulminate

Italian

Verb

fulminate

1. second-person plural present indicative of fulminare
2. second-person plural imperative of fulminare
3. feminine plural of fulminato

Latin

Adjective

fulmin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of fulmin?tus

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.