tornado

See also Tornado, and tornádo

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /tO:(r\)"neI.d@U/

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.
   • 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 114: 

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

   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 (cmn), 龙卷风 (cmn) (lǒngjuǎnfēng)

• Crimean Tatar: şeytan toyu
• 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) (sífounas) 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
• Serbo-Croatian: tornado (sh) m
• 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, 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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Finnish

Noun

tornado

1. tornado

Declension

Declension of tornado (type palvelu) singular plural nominative tornado tornadot genitive tornadon tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten partitive tornadoa tornadoja tornadoita accusative tornado tornadon tornadot inessive tornadossa tornadoissa elative tornadosta tornadoista illative tornadoon tornadoihin adessive tornadolla tornadoilla ablative tornadolta tornadoilta allative tornadolle tornadoille essive tornadona tornadoina translative tornadoksi tornadoiksi instructive – tornadoin abessive tornadotta tornadoitta comitative – tornadoineen

See also

• pyörremyrsky

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Italian

Noun

tornado m (invariable)

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 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