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)
- (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 fry
- 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 edit
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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.
- They come every night,
- 2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances
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
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
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English tornado, from Spanish tronada.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tornado n
- (meteorology) tornado
- Synonym: trąba powietrzna
Declension edit
or
Indeclinable.
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- 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