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French
Adjective
impetueux (feminine impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)
- Obsolete spelling of impétueux.
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“violence”).
Adjective
impetueux m (feminine singular impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)
- forceful, violent, strong
- un vent impetueux - a violent wind
Old French
Adjective
impetueux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular impetueuse)
- forceful; violent; strong
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (impetueux, supplement)