intempérie

Learned borrowing from Latin intemperiēs.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.pe.ʁi/

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intempérie f (plural intempéries)

1. (usually in the plural) bad weather, foul weather

   braver les intempéries ― to brave bad weather

   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 3:

     Nous voudrions . . . [éviter] ainsi à notre lecteur les cahotements de moyens de locomotion médiocres et les inconvénients des intempéries.

     We would like . . . [to spare] our reader the jolts of poor means of transport and the inconveniences of bad weather.

• “intempérie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin intemperiēs.

intempérie f (plural intempéries)

1. (usually in the plural) any destructive weather event

• intemperismo

• “intempérie”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025