tornado
English
Etymology
From earlier 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
Noun
tornado (plural tornados or tornadoes)
- (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
- 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist[1], 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
Derived terms
- tornado shelter
- 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.
Translations
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See also
References
- ^ “tornado”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tornado | tornadoen | tornadoer | tornadoerne |
genitive | tornados | tornadoens | tornadoers | tornadoernes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
tornado f or m (plural tornado's, diminutive tornadootje n)
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
tornado (accusative singular tornadon, plural tornadoj, accusative plural tornadojn)
Finnish
Noun
tornado
Declension
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
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ado
Noun
tornado m (uncountable)
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.
Noun
tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoer, definite plural tornadoene)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
- “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Spanish tronada, via English tornado
Noun
tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoar, definite plural tornadoane)
- (meteorology) a tornado
References
- “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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Noun
tornado m (plural tornados)
Verb
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Scots
Etymology
Noun
tornado (plural tornadoes)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)
Declension
References
- “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Spanish
Etymology
From English tornado, and this in turn from Spanish tronada (see English etymology for details).
Pronunciation
Noun
tornado m (plural tornados)
Related terms
- anticiclón m
- ciclón m
- huracán m
- remolino m
- tifón m
- torbellino m
Verb
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