tornado

From earlier 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 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.

• twister
• cyclone

• tornado shelter
• tornado watch, tornado warning: A tornado watch means that conditions are favorable for producing a tornado. A tornado warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area or has been detected on radar.

• cyclone
• dust devil
• hurricane
• tsunami
• typhoon
• waterspout
• willy willy

• 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

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

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

1. (meteorology) tornado

tornado

1. tornado

• pyörremyrsky

• Rhymes: -ado

tornado m (invariable)

1. tornado

• 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.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toɾˈnadu/

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. (meteorology) tornado

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

1. masculine singular 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): /torˈnado/, [t̪orˈnaðo]

tornado m (plural tornados)

1. tornado

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

1. Masculine singular past participle of tornar.

• tronado, rotando, no tardo