tornado

English

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tornado

Wikipedia

Etymology

From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm. From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonō (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornō (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/, /tɔɹˈneɪˌdoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)

1. (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

   Synonym: twister

   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

Synonyms

• twister (informal)

Hypernyms

• whirlwind

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Danish: tornado
• → Irish: tornádó
• → Italian: tornado
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tornado
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: tornado
• → Russian: торнадо (tornado)
• → Spanish: tornado
  • → Dutch: tornado
  • → German: Tornado
  • → Portuguese: tornado

Translations

Verb

tornado (third-person singular simple present tornados, present participle tornadoing, simple past and past participle tornadoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sweep through something violently.
   • 2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances

     And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.

   • 2015, James Richardson, Reservations: Poems (page 5)

     They come every night,
     those cavernous trains, tornadoing
     the frozen house,
     a madness feeling for the door.

See also

• cyclone, dust devil, waterspout, willy willy
• hurricane, typhoon
• tournedo(s)

References

Anagrams

• donator, odorant, tandoor

Danish

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

1. tornado

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

tornado f or m (plural tornado's, diminutive tornadootje n)

1. tornado

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

tornado

Wikipedia ^eo

Etymology

From French tornade, Italian tornado, German Tornado, Yiddish טאָרנאַדאָ (tornado), Russian торна́до (tornádo), Polish tornado, all derived from English tornado, from Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado (accusative singular tornadon, plural tornadoj, accusative plural tornadojn)

1. (meteorology) tornado

   Mia kuzino loĝis en Kansaso kaj spertis multajn danĝerajn tornadojn.

   My cousin lived in Kansas and experienced many dangerous tornadoes.

Finnish

Etymology

From English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtornɑdo/,
• Rhymes: -ornɑdo
• Syllabification^(key): tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado

1. tornado

Declension

See also

• pyörremyrsky
• trombi

Further reading

• “tornado”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Galician

Participle

tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)

1. past participle of tornar

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torˈna.do/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: tor‧nà‧do

Noun

tornado m (invariable)

1. tornado

Further reading

• tornado in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• rotando, rotonda

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

tornado

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoer, definite plural tornadoene)

1. (meteorology) a tornado

References

• “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

tornado

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoar, definite plural tornadoane)

1. (meteorology) a tornado

References

• “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

tornado

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈna.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -adɔ
• Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado n

1. (meteorology) tornado

   Synonym: trąba powietrzna

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• tornado in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tornado in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. (meteorology) tornado

Participle

tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)

1. past participle of tornar

Scots

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado (plural tornadoes)

1. tornado

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Spanish tornado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tǒrnaːdo/
• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)

1. tornado

Declension

References

• “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

tornado

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado, and this in turn from Spanish tronada (see English etymology for details).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈnado/
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. tornado

Related terms

Participle

tornado (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas)

1. past participle of tornar

Further reading

• “tornado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• tronado, rotando