fulminant

Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulminate +‎ -ant or fulmine +‎ -ant.

fulminant (not comparable)

1. That fulminates.
2. (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.

fulminant (plural fulminants)

1. A thunderbolt.
2. 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.

fulminant

1. gerund of fulminar

fulminant

1. present participle of fulminer

• “fulminant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): [ˌfʊlmɪˈnant]

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• Hyphenation: ful‧mi‧nant

From Latin fulmināns (“striking with lightning”) via French fulminant.

fulminant (strong nominative masculine singular fulminanter, comparative fulminanter, superlative am fulminantesten)

1. splendid, furious
2. (pathology) fulminant

• “fulminant” in Duden online
• “fulminant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “fulminant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

fulminant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fulminō

Borrowed from French fulminant.

fulminant m or n (feminine singular fulminantă, masculine plural fulminanți, feminine/neuter plural fulminante)

1. fulminant