tempestivus

Latin

Etymology

From tempestās (“time, season”) +‎ -īvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛm.pɛsˈtiː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tem.pesˈtiː.vus]

Adjective

tempestīvus (feminine tempestīva, neuter tempestīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. timely, opportune, fitting
2. early, betimes
3. (of a person) mature

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tempestīvus	tempestīva	tempestīvum		tempestīvī	tempestīvae	tempestīva
genitive	tempestīvī	tempestīvae	tempestīvī		tempestīvōrum	tempestīvārum	tempestīvōrum
dative	tempestīvō	tempestīvae	tempestīvō		tempestīvīs
accusative	tempestīvum	tempestīvam	tempestīvum		tempestīvōs	tempestīvās	tempestīva
ablative	tempestīvō	tempestīvā	tempestīvō		tempestīvīs
vocative	tempestīve	tempestīva	tempestīvum		tempestīvī	tempestīvae	tempestīva

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “timely, opportune”): intempestīvus

Derived terms

• intempestīvus
• tempestīvē
• tempestīvitās
• tempestīvō

Related terms

• temperō
• tempestās
• tempus

Descendants

• → Catalan: tempestiu
• → English: tempestive
• → Italian: tempestivo
• → Portuguese: tempestivo
• → Spanish: tempestivo

References

• “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tempestivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a repast which begins in good time: convivia tempestiva (Arch. 6. 13)