fulmen
/ˈfʌlmən/noun
fulmen is a noun meaning “An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-M-E-N, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fulmen is fulmina.
What does fulmen mean?
noun
- 1
obsoleteA thunderbolt.
- 2
An artistic or graphic representation of a thunderbolt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fulmen?
- /ˈfʌlmən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fulmen
- fulmina plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fulmen?
Fulmen appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fulmen come from?
Borrowed from Latin fulmen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).