торнадо

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Macedonian

Pronunciation

Noun

торна́до (tornádon (plural торна́да)

  1. tornado

Declension

Russian

торнадо

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado, from Spanish tronada (thunderstorm), from tronar (to thunder), from Latin tonāre (to thunder), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tene- (to thunder). The 'o' and 'r' were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (to twist, to turn), from Latin tornāre (to turn). Spanish later borrowed the word tornado with the same spelling and meaning as in English.

Pronunciation

Noun

торна́до (tornádom inan (indeclinable)

  1. tornado (column of air)
    Synonyms: смерч (smerč), тромб (tromb)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Spanish tornado.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tǒrnaːdo/
  • Hyphenation: тор‧на‧до

Noun

то̀рна̄до m (Latin spelling tòrnādo)

  1. tornado

Declension

References

  • торнадо”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024