fulminare
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)
- (transitive) to strike by lightning
- (transitive) to freeze or paralyze (someone) by looking at them
- Synonyms: folgorare, gelare, colpire, annichilire, raggelare, paralizzare
- 2013, F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ferruccio Russo, transl., 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.”)
- (transitive) to electrocute
- Synonym: folgorare
- (transitive) to strike violently and with precision
- lo fulminò con un destro alla mascella
- he struck him with a right hand to the jaw
- (intransitive, impersonal) (to) there be lightning [auxiliary essere or avere]
- ha tuonato e fulminato tutta la notte
- it thundered and there was lightning all night
- (intransitive, archaic) to move quickly and forcefully
Conjugation
Conjugation of fulminàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | fulminàre | |||||
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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 | nonfulminàre | non fùlmini | non fulminiàmo | non fulminàte | non fùlminino |
1Alternatively when impersonal.
Derived terms
- fulminarsi
- fulminante
- fulminato
Anagrams
- fulminerà
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ful.miˈnaː.re/, [fʊɫ̪mɪˈnäːrɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ful.miˈna.re/, [fulmiˈnäːre]
Verb
fulmināre
- inflection of fulminō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative
Spanish
Verb
fulminare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of fulminar