different between thunder vs fulmine

English

Etymology

From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh?- (“to thunder”).

Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian ????? (tondar), Latin ton?, deton?, Ancient Greek ????? (stén?), ??????? (stenáz?), ?????? (stónos), ??????? (Stént?r), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???nd?/
• (General American) enPR: th?n?d?r, IPA^(key): /???nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: thun?der

Noun

thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)

1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

2. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.

3. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
   • 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru

     The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.

4. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
5. (figuratively) The spotlight.

Usage notes

• roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder e.g. A series of rolls/claps/peals of thunder were heard

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lightning

Descendants

• Tagalog: tanda

Verb

thunder (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)

1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.

2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.

3. (intransitive) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
4. (transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

5. To produce something with incredible power

Conjugation

Derived terms

• (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer

Translations

See also

• thundering

Middle English

Noun

thunder

1. Alternative form of thonder

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.