fulminante
German
Pronunciation
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Adjective
fulminante
- inflection of fulminant:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ful.miˈnan.te/
- Rhymes: -ante
- Hyphenation: ful‧mi‧nàn‧te
Participle
fulminante m or f (plural fulminanti)
- present participle of fulminare
Adjective
fulminante m or f (plural fulminanti)
Latin
Participle
fulminante
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of fulmināns
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fulmiˈnante/ [ful.miˈnãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: ful‧mi‧nan‧te
Adjective
fulminante m or f (masculine and feminine plural fulminantes)
- sudden, fulminant
- 2015 November 1, “Columna”, in El País[1]:
- Con sus consecuencias de embrutecimiento y encallecimiento fulminantes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- blazing
- 1610, Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, La Mayor hazaña de Alejandro Magno:
- dos rayos fulminantes su soberbia deshicieron
- two blazing bolts did strike away his haughtiness
- cutting
- 1896, Emilio Castelar, Historia de Europa […] :
- Apenas acababa de despedirlos, cuando Vergniaud pronunció su maravilloso discurso contra la nueva Monarquía, no menos fulminante que los discursos pronunciados por Mirabeau contra la vieja Monarquía
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2017, Lola Montalvo, Historia de una enfermera:
- Benigno me dispara una fulminante mirada que me hace estremecer.
- Benigno shot a look that could kill, which made me shiver
- superb, tremendous
Derived terms
Noun
fulminante m (plural fulminantes)
Further reading
- “fulminante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024