intempestus

Latin

Etymology

From in- (“not”) +‎ tempus (“time”) +‎ -tus (forms participles, adjectives, and substantive nouns). See also tempestās (“storm; season; weather”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.temˈpes.tus/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛmˈpɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.temˈpes.tus/, [in̪t̪emˈpɛst̪us]

Adjective

intempestus (feminine intempesta, neuter intempestum); first/second-declension adjective

1. untimely, especially:
   1. unseasonable, particularly unseasonably stormy weather
   2. unpropitious
2. dark, dismal

   intempesta nox

   darkest night

3. unhealthy
4. stormy, tempestuous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	intempestus	intempesta	intempestum		intempestī	intempestae	intempesta
genitive	intempestī	intempestae	intempestī		intempestōrum	intempestārum	intempestōrum
dative	intempestō	intempestae	intempestō		intempestīs
accusative	intempestum	intempestam	intempestum		intempestōs	intempestās	intempesta
ablative	intempestō	intempestā	intempestō		intempestīs
vocative	intempeste	intempesta	intempestum		intempestī	intempestae	intempesta

Derived terms

• intempestum

References

• “intempestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intempestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intempestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in the dead of night; at midnight: intempesta, concubia nocte