tempestive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tempestivus.

Adjective[edit]

tempestive (comparative more tempestive, superlative most tempestive)

  1. (obsolete) seasonable; timely
    • 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels:
      Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven.

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Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

tempestive

  1. feminine plural of tempestivo

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

tempestīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of tempestīvus

References[edit]

  • “tempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tempestive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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