tornado
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm.[1] From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonō (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornō (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA(key): /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/, /tɔɹˈneɪˌdoʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Dszpics1.jpg/220px-Dszpics1.jpg)
- (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
- Synonym: twister
- 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- twister (informal)
Hypernyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- horse tornado
- rope tornado
- stovepipe tornado
- Tornado Alley
- tornado brain
- tornado chaser
- tornado fry
- tornado hunter
- tornado omelette
- tornado omurice
- tornado outbreak
- tornado potato
- tornado shelter
- tornado siren
- tornado warning (“a tornado has been sighted”)
- tornado watch (“conditions are favorable for producing a tornado”)
- wedge tornado
Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: tornado
- → Irish: tornádó
- → Italian: tornado
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tornado
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: tornado
- → Russian: торнадо (tornado)
- → Spanish: tornado
Translations
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Verb
[edit]tornado (third-person singular simple present tornados, present participle tornadoing, simple past and past participle tornadoed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To sweep through something violently.
- 2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances:
- And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.
- 2015, James Richardson, Reservations: Poems, page 5:
- They come every night,
those cavernous trains, tornadoing
the frozen house,
a madness feeling for the door.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “tornado”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)
Inflection
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tornado | tornadoen | tornadoer | tornadoerne |
genitive | tornados | tornadoens | tornadoers | tornadoernes |
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]tornado f or m (plural tornado's, diminutive tornadootje n)
Esperanto
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Union_City%2C_Oklahoma_F4_tornado_1973.jpg/220px-Union_City%2C_Oklahoma_F4_tornado_1973.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From French tornade, Italian tornado, German Tornado, Yiddish טאָרנאַדאָ (tornado), Russian торна́до (tornádo), Polish tornado, all derived from English tornado, from Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado (accusative singular tornadon, plural tornadoj, accusative plural tornadojn)
- (meteorology) tornado
- Mia kuzino loĝis en Kansaso kaj spertis multajn danĝerajn tornadojn.
- My cousin lived in Kansas and experienced many dangerous tornadoes.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English tornado, from Spanish tronada.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tornado (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tornado | tornadot | |
genitive | tornadon | tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten | |
partitive | tornadoa | tornadoja tornadoita | |
illative | tornadoon | tornadoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tornado | tornadot | |
accusative | nom. | tornado | tornadot |
gen. | tornadon | ||
genitive | tornadon | tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten | |
partitive | tornadoa | tornadoja tornadoita | |
inessive | tornadossa | tornadoissa | |
elative | tornadosta | tornadoista | |
illative | tornadoon | tornadoihin | |
adessive | tornadolla | tornadoilla | |
ablative | tornadolta | tornadoilta | |
allative | tornadolle | tornadoille | |
essive | tornadona | tornadoina | |
translative | tornadoksi | tornadoiksi | |
abessive | tornadotta | tornadoitta | |
instructive | — | tornadoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tornado”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Galician
[edit]Participle
[edit]tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)
- past participle of tornar
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English tornado.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado m (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- tornado in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.
Noun
[edit]tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoer, definite plural tornadoene)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
[edit]- “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.
Noun
[edit]tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoar, definite plural tornadoane)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
[edit]- “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/F5_tornado_Elie_Manitoba_2007.jpg/220px-F5_tornado_Elie_Manitoba_2007.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English tornado.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado n (indeclinable)
- (meteorology) tornado, twister, whirlwind (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground)
- Synonyms: cyklon, trąba, trąba powietrzna
- (figurative) tsunami (violent event that changes or completely shatters the previous state of something)
- Synonym: tsunami
- (figurative) tsunami, flood (appearance of some emotion, behavior, or phenomenon in large quantities or in high intensity) [with genitive]
Declension
[edit]or
Indeclinable.
Further reading
[edit]- tornado in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tornado in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- tornado in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do
Noun
[edit]tornado m (plural tornados)
Participle
[edit]tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)
- past participle of tornar
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado (plural tornadoes)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English tornado, and this in turn from Spanish tronada (see English etymology for details).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado m (plural tornados)
Related terms
[edit]- anticiclón m
- ciclón m
- huracán m
- remolino m
- tifón m
- torbellino m
Participle
[edit]tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)
- past participle of tornar
Further reading
[edit]- “tornado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]tornado c
Declension
[edit]Declension of tornado | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tornado | tornadon | tornados, tornador | tornadorna |
Genitive | tornados | tornadons | tornados, tornadors | tornadornas |
References
[edit]- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Meteorology
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch feminine nouns
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Dutch nouns with multiple genders
- nl:Atmospheric phenomena
- Esperanto terms derived from French
- Esperanto terms derived from Italian
- Esperanto terms derived from German
- Esperanto terms derived from Yiddish
- Esperanto terms derived from Russian
- Esperanto terms derived from Polish
- Esperanto terms derived from English
- Esperanto terms derived from Spanish
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Esperanto terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Esperanto/ado
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- eo:Meteorology
- Esperanto terms with usage examples
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Spanish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ornɑdo
- Rhymes:Finnish/ornɑdo/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish palvelu-type nominals
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician past participles
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ado
- Rhymes:Italian/ado/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Spanish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Meteorology
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Spanish
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Meteorology
- Polish terms derived from Spanish
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/adɔ
- Rhymes:Polish/adɔ/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- pl:Meteorology
- pl:Wind
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Meteorology
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese past participles
- Scots terms derived from English
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Spanish
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish terms borrowed back into Spanish
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ado
- Rhymes:Spanish/ado/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish past participles
- es:Weather
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns