单词 | fulminic |
释义 | fulminic in British Englishadjective fulminic acid fulminic in American English (fʌlˈmɪnɪk) adjective 1. highly explosive; unstable 2. of or derived from fulminic acid Word origin [1815–25; ‹ L fulmin- (s. of fulmen) lightning, thunder + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: heuristic, pullout, reamer, treadmill, welterweight-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic) |
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