tempestive

English

Etymology

From Latin tempestivus.

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• opportune, timesome; see also Thesaurus:timely

Derived terms

• tempestively

Italian

Adjective

tempestive

1. feminine plural of tempestivo

Latin

Adjective

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.