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English
Etymology
From Latin tempestivus.
Adjective
tempestive (comparative more tempestive, superlative most tempestive)
- (obsolete) seasonable; timely
1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels:Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven.
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Italian
Adjective
tempestive
- feminine plural of tempestivo
Latin
Adjective
tempestīve
- vocative masculine singular of tempestīvus
References
- “tempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tempestive”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tempestive in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.