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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
- untimely, especially:
- unseasonable, particularly unseasonably stormy weather
- unpropitious
- dark, dismal
intempesta nox- darkest night
- unhealthy
- stormy, tempestuous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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