tempestivus
Latin
Etymology
From tempestās (“time, season”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛm.pɛsˈtiː.wʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪em.pesˈt̪iː.vus]
Adjective
tempestīvus (feminine tempestīva, neuter tempestīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tempestīvus | tempestīva | tempestīvum | tempestīvī | tempestīvae | tempestīva | |
| genitive | tempestīvī | tempestīvae | tempestīvī | tempestīvōrum | tempestīvārum | tempestīvōrum | |
| dative | tempestīvō | tempestīvae | tempestīvō | tempestīvīs | |||
| accusative | tempestīvum | tempestīvam | tempestīvum | tempestīvōs | tempestīvās | tempestīva | |
| ablative | tempestīvō | tempestīvā | tempestīvō | tempestīvīs | |||
| vocative | tempestīve | tempestīva | tempestīvum | tempestīvī | tempestīvae | tempestīva | |
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “timely, opportune”): intempestīvus
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: tempestiu
- → English: tempestive
- → Italian: tempestivo
- → Portuguese: tempestivo
- → Spanish: tempestivo
References
- “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tempestivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a repast which begins in good time: convivia tempestiva (Arch. 6. 13)
- a repast which begins in good time: convivia tempestiva (Arch. 6. 13)