fulgurant | Word of the Day

July 28, 2019 fulgurant [fuhl-gyer-uhnt] adjective 1. flashing like lightning. We Can Thank Alexander Hamilton For Giving Us These Words slang The Greatest Language Hits Of Black Music WORD OF THE DAY fulgurant continued... QUOTES To the left the draw-bridge slowly raised its broken span, the soft edges illumined by fulgurant lights of red and green. -- Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945 ORIGIN Fulgurant comes straight from Latin fulgurant-, the inflectional stem of fulgurāns, the present participle of the verb fulgurāre, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb meaning "it lightens," then becoming personal and applied to Jupiter or the sky, and finally being applied generally (such as to orators) and meaning "to shine, glitter." There are many Latin words for lightning, e.g., the noun fulmen (from an unrecorded fulgmen), which has its own derivative verb fulmināre (like fulgurāre, originally an impersonal and intransitive verb), whose past participle fulminātus is the source of the English verb fulminate. And its present participle fulmināns (inflectional stem fulminant-) is the source of the uncommon adjective fulminant, which has largely been replaced by fulminating. Fulgurant entered English in the first half of the 17th century. MORE FOR YOU 1 Spanish Expressions You May Have Overheard In Casual Conversations We've rounded up some less familiar Spanish terms abuzz in popular culture or conversation (you know, how people actually talk). A quick warning: There will be some strong language and adult content ahead. 2 Do You Know How To Speak DoggoLingo? - Everything After Z by Dictionary.com In DoggoLingo, a puppy is called a pupper. A teeny doggo is called smol. A big one is a woofer. Did you follow all that? 3 Unique Ways To Laugh Online More Amusing Than LOL It's no surprise that different communities and languages have developed all sorts of ways to show when we're in stitches on social and in text messages, from internet acronyms like ROFL to the number 555. Do you know them all? 4 English Could Really Use These 9 Wunderbar German Words Many intimidating German terms actually pack in some truly amazing concepts—all in a single word. So, we think it would be wunderbar ("wonderful") if English embraced these nine (not nein!) German gems. 5 The Important Rise Of "#DemThrones" "#DemThrones" is an unofficial, unlicensed, and organically created social television hashtag, largely used by another cultural phenomenon: Black Twitter. So how did it get started? © 2019 Dictionary.com, LLC. ABOUT CONTACT You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: matzom229@gmail.com Subscriber since: September 06, 2017 Unsubscribe Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 400 Oakland CA 94607 Manage your subscription Terms & Privacy