tempestive

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English

Etymology

From Latin tempestivus.

Adjective

tempestive (comparative more tempestive, superlative most tempestive)

  1. (obsolete) seasonable; timely
    • (Can we date this quote by Heywood and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Hierarchy of Angels
      Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Italian

Adjective

tempestive

  1. feminine plural of tempestivo

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) tempestīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of tempestīvus

References

  • “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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