intempestus

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Latin

Etymology

From in- (“not”) +‎ tempus (“time”) +‎ -tus (forms participles, adjectives, and substantive nouns). See also tempestās (“storm; season; weather”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

intempestus (feminine intempesta, neuter intempestum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. untimely, especially:
    1. unseasonable, particularly unseasonably stormy weather
    2. unpropitious
  2. dark, dismal
    intempesta nox
    darkest night
  3. unhealthy
  4. stormy, tempestuous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative intempestus intempesta intempestum intempestī intempestae intempesta
genitive intempestī intempestae intempestī intempestōrum intempestārum intempestōrum
dative intempestō intempestae intempestō intempestīs
accusative intempestum intempestam intempestum intempestōs intempestās intempesta
ablative intempestō intempestā intempestō intempestīs
vocative intempeste intempesta intempestum intempestī intempestae intempesta

Derived terms

References

  • “intempestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “intempestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • intempestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in the dead of night; at midnight: intempesta, concubia nocte
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