tornado

From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm.[1] 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”).

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

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tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)

A tornado in Oklahoma

1. (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

   Synonym: twister

   • 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.

• twister (informal)

• whirlwind

• stovepipe tornado
• Tornado Alley
• tornado shelter
• tornado watch (“conditions are favorable for producing a tornado”)
• tornado warning (“a tornado has been sighted”)

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

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

• donator, odorant, tandoor

From English tornado.

tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

1. tornado

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

1. tornado

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

• IPA^(key): [torˈnado]
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• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

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

1. (meteorology) tornado

   Mia kuzino loĝis en Kansaso dum kvin jaroj kaj spertis multajn danĝerajn tornadojn.

   My cousin lived in Kansas for five years and experienced many dangerous tornadoes.

From English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

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

tornado

1. tornado

• pyörremyrsky
• trombi

Borrowed from English tornado.

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

tornado m (invariable)

1. tornado

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

• rotando, rotonda

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

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

1. (meteorology) a tornado

• “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

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

1. (meteorology) a tornado

• “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

• IPA^(key): /tɔrˈna.dɔ/

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

tornado n

1. (meteorology) tornado

   Synonym: trąba powietrzna

or

Indeclinable.

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

• Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. (meteorology) tornado

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

1. past participle of tornar

From English tornado.

tornado (plural tornadoes)

1. tornado

From Spanish tornado.

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

tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)

1. tornado

• “tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

• IPA^(key): /toɾˈnado/ [t̪oɾˈna.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. tornado

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

1. past participle of tornar

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

• tronado, rotando, no tardo