tornado

See also Tornado, and tornádo

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK, Australia) enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/, SAMPA: /tO:(r\)"neI.d@U/
• (US) IPA: /tɔɹˈnejɾow/
• (US) (Can we verify this pronunciation?) IPA: /toɹˈnaɪ.do/, SAMPA: /tOr\"naI.do/

Etymology 1

From Spanish tronada (thunderstorm), from tronar (to thunder), from Latin tonare (to thunder), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tene- (to thunder). The 'o' and 'r' were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (to twist, to turn), from Latin tornare (to turn).

Noun

tornado (plural tornados or tornadoes)

A tornado in Oklahoma

1. (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

   A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.

Synonyms

• twister
• cyclone

Derived terms

• tornado watch, tornado warning (A tornado watch means that conditions are favorable for producing a tornado. A tornado warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area or has been detected on radar.)
• tornado shelter

Translations

column of air

Arabic: اعصار (ar) ('i3Saar) m. Armenian: պտտահողմ (hy) (pttahoġm) Catalan: tornado (ca) m. Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎴ (chr) (unole) Chinese: Mandarin: 龍捲風 (zh), 龙卷风 (zh) (lǒngjuǎnfēng) Crimean Tatar: şeytan toyu Croatian: tornado (hr) m. Czech: tornádo (cs) n. Danish: tornado (da) c. Dutch: tornado (nl) Esperanto: tornado (eo) Finnish: tornado (fi), trombi (fi) French: tornade (fr) f. Georgian: გრიალი (ka) (griali) German: Tornado (de) m. Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) (anemostróvilos) m., σίφουνας (el) m. Hindi: तूफान (hi) (tūphān) Hungarian: tornádó (hu) Italian: ciclone (it) m. Japanese: 竜巻 (ja) (たつまき, tatsumaki), トルネード (ja) (torunēdo)

Kannada: ತುಫಾನು (kn) (tuphānu), ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ (kn) (birugāḷi), ಸುಂಟರಗಾಳಿ (kn) (suṇṭaragāḷi) Korean: 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung), 토네이도 (ko) (toneido) Kurdish: bablîsok (ku) Latin: turbō (la) f. Latvian: virpuļviesulis (lv) m. Lithuanian: viesulas (lt) m., tornadas (lt) m., trombas (lt) m. Navajo: níyoltsoh Northern Sotho: sedukaduka O'odham: siwulogi Polish: trąba powietrzna (pl) f. Portuguese: ciclone (pt) m. Romanian: tornadă (ro) f. Russian: смерч (ru) (smerč) m., торнадо (ru) (tornádo) m. (indeclinable) Spanish: tornado (es) m. Swahili: tufani (sw) m. Swedish: tornado (sv), tromb (sv) c. Vietnamese: vòi rồng (vi), bão táp (vi) Welsh: gyrwynt (cy) m.

See also

• cyclone
• dust devil
• hurricane
• tsunami
• typhoon
• waterspout
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Etymology 2

Noun

tornado (plural tornados)

1. A rolled pork roast.

Anagrams

• donator
• odorant
• tandoor

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Danish

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado c. (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

1. tornado

Inflection

    Inflection of tornado

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	tornado	tornadoen	tornadoer	tornadoerne
genitive	tornados	tornadoens	tornadoers	tornadoernes

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Dutch

Noun

tornado f. and m. (plural tornado's, diminutive tornadootje)

1. tornado

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /torˈnado/
• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado (plural tornadoj, accusative singular tornadon, accusative plural tornadojn)

1. (meteorology) tornado

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Italian

Noun

tornado m. inv.

1. tornado

Anagrams

• rotando, rotonda

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Portuguese

Verb

tornado m. (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas, infinitive tornar)

1. Masculine singular past participle of verb tornar.

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Spanish

Noun

tornado m. (plural tornados)

1. tornado

See also

• anticiclón m.
• huracán m.
• ciclón m.
• tifón m.

Verb

tornado m. (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas, infinitive tornar)

1. Past participle of tornar