impetueux
See also: impétueux
French
Adjective
impetueux (feminine impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)
- Obsolete spelling of impétueux
Further reading
- “impetueux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus (“violent”), from Latin impetus (“violence”).
Adjective
impetueux m (feminine singular impetueuse, masculine plural impetueux, feminine plural impetueuses)
- forceful, violent, strong
- un vent impetueux - a violent wind
Old French
Adjective
impetueux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular impetueuse)
- forceful; violent; strong
Descendants
- → English: impetuous
- French: impétueux
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (impetueux, supplement)