impetueux

See also: impétueux

French

Adjective

impetueux (feminine impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)

1. Obsolete spelling of impétueux.

Further reading

• “impetueux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French impetueux, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin impetus (“violence”).

Adjective

impetueux m (feminine singular impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)

1. forceful, violent, strong

   un vent impetueux - a violent wind

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Old French

Adjective

impetueux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular impetueuse)

1. forceful; violent; strong

Descendants

• → English: impetuous
• French: impétueux

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (impetueux, supplement)