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English
Etymology
From fulminate + -or.
Noun
fulminator (plural fulminators)
- One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
1991 June 28, Michael Miner, “Tribune Staff Rider/New Comiskey: Photo Friendly?”, in Chicago Reader:Most fulminators dial once.
2009 August 24, “Who Wants to Yell Next?”, in New York Times:Instead of helping to educate his constituents or move the debate ahead, he provided more red meat for fulminators, erroneously insisting that the rival House health care bill features “a government program that determines if you’re going to pull the plug on grandma.”
Latin
Verb
fulminātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of fulminō
References
- “fulminator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fulminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- fulminator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016