intempestive
English
Etymology
From Latin intempestīvus, from in- + tempestīvus (“seasonable”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv/
Adjective
intempestive (comparative more intempestive, superlative most intempestive)
- (now rare) Untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York, 2001, p.106:
- Luxus funerum [display at funerals], shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.
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French
Further reading
- “intempestive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Latin
References
- intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌintempesˈtive/
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