From en.wiktionary.org:
[Tempest]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en] ([fr]), from [en], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A storm , especially one with severe wind s.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1847 | author=w:Herman Melville | title=Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas | chapter=16
|passage=As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the
Pacific is far different from a TEMPEST in the howling North Atlantic.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1892 | author=w:James Yoxall
|chapter=5|title=The Lonely Pyramid (see
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL10504990W) |passage=The desert storm was riding
in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell
simoom.[...]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the TEMPEST raged about the wanderers,
drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.}}
1. Any violent tumult or commotion .
2. * [passage=Comforted with these reflections, the TEMPEST of his soul subsided]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1914 | author=w:Ambrose Bierce | title=One Officer, One Man
|passage=They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and
set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first
movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the TEMPEST did
not break out.}}
1. [en] A fashionable social gathering; a drum .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[storm]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[any violent tumult or commotion]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Walloon: [wa]
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- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To storm .
2. [en] To disturb , as by a tempest.
3. * [text=. . . the seal <br> And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk, <br> Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, <br> TEMPEST the ocean.]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1811 | author= 吴语: Percy_Bysshe_Shelley | chapter=The Drowned Lover, | title=Poems from St. Irvyne
|passage=Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,<br>And the moon
dimly gleamed through the TEMPESTED air.}}
**** Translations
[To storm]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[To disturb, as by a tempest]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
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*** References
- [R:Webster 1828]
- [tempest]
- [tempest]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Etymology
[enm]
*** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. tempest [storm]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [mga]
- [ga]
- [gd]