The story
- Latin · derived fromfulminō“strike like lightning”
- French · borrowed fromfulminant
- English todayfulminant
Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
Words from the same roots
Latinfulminō all →
fulmine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.