different between reprimand vs fulmine

English

Etymology

From French réprimande, from réprimer (“to repress”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) (noun) IPA^(key): /???p??m??nd/
• (Received Pronunciation) (verb) IPA^(key): /???p??m??nd/, /??p???m??nd/
  • Rhymes: -??nd
• (General American) (noun) IPA^(key): /???p.???mænd/
• (General American) (verb) IPA^(key): /???p.???mænd/, /???p.???mænd/
  • Rhymes: -ænd

Noun

reprimand (plural reprimands)

1. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

Translations

Verb

reprimand (third-person singular simple present reprimands, present participle reprimanding, simple past and past participle reprimanded)

1. To reprove in a formal or official way.
   • 1983. Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.

     He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

See also

• admonish
• admonition
• rebuke
• reprehend
• reprehension
• reproof
• reproval
• reprove

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.