tempestuous

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɛmˈpɛs.tjʊ.əs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-t͡ʃʊ-/
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• General-American: /tɛmˈpɛs.tʃu.əs/
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• General-American: /tɛmˈpɛs.tju.əs/
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• CMU ARPABET: T EH2 M P EH1 S CH UW0 AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English tempestious, tempestous, tempestuous (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous”), from Anglo-Norman tempestous, and Old French tempesteus, tempestos, tempestous, tempestuose (modern French tempétueux), and directly from its etymon Latin tempestuōsus (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous; impetuous”), from tempestās, tempestūs (“point or period of time; season; weather, specifically bad weather; storm, tempest”) (from tempus (“period of time; (rare) weather”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temh1- (“to cut”) or *ten- (“to extend, stretch”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is equivalent to tempest + -uous (a variant of -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality, typically in abundance)).

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aromanian: furtunos — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Bulgarian: бурен (buren) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Bulgarian: бушуващ (bušuvašt) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Catalan: tempestuós — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Chinese Mandarin: 洶湧 /汹涌 (xiōngyǒng) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Czech: bouřlivý — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Dutch: stormachtig — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Finnish: myrskyisä — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Finnish: rajuilmainen — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• French: tempétueux — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Galician: tempestuoso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• German: stürmisch — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• German: urig — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Greek: θυελλώδης (thyellódis) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Ancient Greek: θυελλώδης (thuellṓdēs) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Irish: anfach — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Irish: anfúil — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Middle Irish: gáethmar — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Italian: tempestoso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Latin: tempestuōsus — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Latin: intempestus — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Latin: procellōsus — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Macedonian: бурен (buren) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Maltese: tempestuż — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Māori: hūkerikeri — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Māori: niwhaniwha — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Māori: tākaha — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Māori: whakarawarawa — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Occitan: tempestos — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Occitan: tempestuos — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Portuguese: tempestuoso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Romanian: tempestuos — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Romanian: furtunos — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Scottish Gaelic: stoirmeil — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Serbo-Croatian: бу̑ран — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Serbo-Croatian: bȗran — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Spanish: tempestuoso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Spanish: borrascoso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Spanish: proceloso — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Swedish: stormig — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Tagalog: masigwá — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Ukrainian: буре́мний (burémnyj) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy
• Ukrainian: бурхли́вий (burxlývyj) — of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; of a place: frequently experiencing tempests — see also stormy