fulminare

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See also: fulminaré

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulmināre. By surface analysis, fulmine (“lightning”) +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ful.miˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ful‧mi‧nà‧re

Verb

fulminàre (first-person singular present fùlmino, first-person singular past historic fulminài, past participle fulminàto, auxiliary avére or (alternatively when impersonal) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to strike by lightning
  2. (transitive) to freeze or paralyze (someone) by looking at them
    Synonyms: folgorare, gelare, colpire, annichilire, raggelare, paralizzare
    • 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated by Ferruccio Russo, Il Grande Gatsby [The Great Gatsby], Edizioni Scientifiche e Artistiche, page 113:
      Gatsby, pallido come la morte, con le mani gettate come pesi nelle tasche della giacca, se ne stava in piedi in una pozza d’acqua fulminandomi tragicamente con gli occhi.
      Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
      (literally, “Gatsby, pale like death, with his hands thrown like weights in the jacket's pockets, was standing in a puddle of water, paralyzing me tragically with his eyes.”)
  3. (transitive) to electrocute
    Synonym: folgorare
  4. (transitive) to strike violently and with precision
    lo fulminò con un destro alla mascella
    he struck him with a right hand to the jaw
  5. (intransitive, impersonal) (to) there be lightning
    ha tuonato e fulminato tutta la notte
    it thundered and there was lightning all night
  6. (intransitive, archaic) to move quickly and forcefully

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fulminàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive fulminàre
auxiliary verb avére, èssere1 gerund fulminàndo
present participle fulminànte past participle fulminàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fùlmino fùlmini fùlmina fulminiàmo fulminàte fùlminano
imperfect fulminàvo fulminàvi fulminàva fulminavàmo fulminavàte fulminàvano
past historic fulminài fulminàsti fulminò fulminàmmo fulminàste fulminàrono
future fulminerò fulminerài fulminerà fulminerémo fulmineréte fulminerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present fulminerèi fulminerésti fulminerèbbe, fulminerébbe fulminerémmo fulmineréste fulminerèbbero, fulminerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present fùlmini fùlmini fùlmini fulminiàmo fulminiàte fùlminino
imperfect fulminàssi fulminàssi fulminàsse fulminàssimo fulminàste fulminàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
fùlmina fùlmini fulminiàmo fulminàte fùlminino
negative imperative non fulminàre non fùlmini non fulminiàmo non fulminàte non fùlminino

1Alternatively when impersonal.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

fulmināre

  1. inflection of fulminō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

fulminare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of fulminar
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