English
fulminatory
Compare French fulminatoire.
Equivalent to fulmine + -ate + -ory
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to shimmer, gleam, shine’
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Latin fulgeō ‘flash, glare, lighten’
Latin fulmen ‘lightning that strikes or sets on fire’
Latin fulminō ‘lighten, illuminate’
French fulminer
English fulmine
Today it means
adj Thundering; striking terror.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fulminatory