tornado

Etymology

From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonare (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tene- (“to thunder”). The 'o' and 'r' were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornāre (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

tornado (plural tornados or tornadoes)

A tornado in Oklahoma

1. (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
   • 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, 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.

   A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.

Anagrams

• donator, odorant, tandoor

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

1. tornado

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. tornado

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. (meteorology) tornado

Noun

tornado

1. tornado

See also

• pyörremyrsky

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

tornado m (invariable)

1. tornado

Anagrams

• rotando, rotonda

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.

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.

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. (meteorology) tornado

Verb

tornado m (feminine singular tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas, infinitive tornar)

1. Masculine singular past participle of tornar

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado (plural tornadoes)

1. tornado

Etymology

From Spanish tornado.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)

1. tornado

References

• “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾˈna̠.ð̞o̞], [to̞ɾˈna̠.do̞]

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. tornado

Verb

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

1. past participle of tornar

See also

• anticiclón m
• huracán m
• ciclón m
• tifón m
• torbellino m
• remolino m

Anagrams

• tronado
• rotando
• no tardo