intempestive

From Latin intempestīvus, from in- + tempestīvus (“seasonable”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv/

intempestive (comparative more intempestive, superlative most intempestive)

1. (now rare) untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York, 2001, p.106:

     Luxus funerum , shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.

• ill-timed, inopportune; see also Thesaurus:untimely

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɑ̃.pɛs.tiv/

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• Homophone: intempestives

intempestive

1. feminine singular of intempestif

• “intempestive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

intempestive

1. feminine plural of intempestivo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.tem.pesˈtiː.u̯e/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.tem.pesˈti.ve/,

intempestīve

1. vocative masculine singular of intempestīvus

• “intempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˌintempesˈtive/

intempestive

1. feminine plural of intempestiv