tornado

See also: Tornado, tornádo, and tornádó

English

Etymology

From earlier English 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”).

Pronunciation

enPR: tô(r)-nā'dō, IPA^(key): /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)

A tornado in Oklahoma

(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
Synonym: twister
- 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.

Synonyms

twister (informal)

Hypernyms

whirlwind

Coordinate terms

derecho
dust devil
fire whirl
landspout
plow wind
waterspout

Derived terms

stovepipe tornado
Tornado Alley
tornado shelter
tornado watch (“conditions are favorable for producing a tornado”)
tornado warning (“a tornado has been sighted”)

Descendants

→ Danish: tornado
→ Irish: tornádó
→ Italian: tornado
→ Norwegian Bokmål: tornado
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: tornado
→ Russian: торнадо (tornado)
→ Spanish: tornado
- → German: Tornado

Translations

violent windstorm

Adyghe: гъуэжькуий (ğʷeźkʷujij)
Arabic: إِعْصَار‎ m (ʾiʿṣār)
Armenian: պտտահողմ (hy) (pttahołm)
Bulgarian: торна̀до n (tornàdo), смерч m (smerč)
Burmese: လေဆင်နှာမောင်း (my) (lehcanghnamaung:)
Catalan: tornado (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎴ (unole), ᎠᎦᎷᎦ (agaluga)
Cheyenne: hevovetāso
Chinese:
Mandarin: 龍捲風／龙卷风 (zh) (lǒngjuǎnfēng)
Crimean Tatar: şeytan toyu
Czech: tornádo (cs) n
Danish: tornado c, hvirvelstorm c
Dutch: tornado (nl)
Esperanto: tornado (eo)
Faroese: melduródn f
Finnish: tornado (fi), trombi (fi), pyörremyrsky (fi)
French: tornade (fr) f
Georgian: გრიალი (griali)
German: Tornado (de) m, Windhose (de) m (literally “wind trousers”)
Greek: ανεμοστρόβιλος (el) m (anemostróvilos), σίφουνας (el) m (sífounas)
Ancient: λαῖλαψ f (laîlaps)
Hindi: तूफ़ान m (tūfān), तूफान (hi) (tūphān)
Hungarian: tornádó (hu)
Icelandic: skýstrokkur m, hvirfilbylur m
Inuktitut: ᐅᓚᔪᔭᖅ (olayoyaq)
Irish: tornádó m
Italian: tornado (it) m, tromba d'aria f
Japanese: 竜巻 (ja) (たつまき, tatsumaki), トルネード (torunēdo)
Kannada: ತುಫಾನು (kn) (tuphānu), ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ (kn) (birugāḷi), ಸುಂಟರಗಾಳಿ (kn) (suṇṭaragāḷi)
Kazakh: құйын (qūiyn)
Korean: 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung), 토네이도 (toneido)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bablîsok (ku)
Latin: turbō (la) f
Latvian: virpuļviesulis m
Lithuanian: viesulas m, tornadas (lt) m, trombas m
Malagasy: rambondanitra (mg)
Malay: puting beliung (ms)
Malayalam: ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് (ml) (cuḻalikkāṟṟŭ), കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ് (ml) (koṭuṅkāṟṟŭ)
Mingrelian: ტორნადო (ṭornado)
Mongolian: хар салхи (xar salxi)
Navajo: níyoltsoh
Northern Sotho: sedukaduka
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tornado (no) m, skypumpe m or f, virvelstorm m
Nynorsk: tornado m, skypumpe f, kvervelstorm m, virvelstorm m
O'odham: siwulogi
Old English: þoden m
Paelignian: tarunada
Plautdietsch: Wirbelstorm m
Polish: trąba powietrzna (pl) f, tornado (pl) m
Punjabi: ਤੁਫ਼ਾਨ (tufān)
Portuguese: ciclone (pt) m, tornado (pt) m
Romanian: tornadă (ro) f
Russian: смерч (ru) m (smerč), торна́до (ru) m (tornádo)
Sanskrit: चक्रवातः (sa) m (cakravātaḥ)
Scots: tornado
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: то̀рна̄до m
Roman: tòrnādo (sh) m
Spanish: tornado (es) m
Swahili: tufani (sw) m
Swedish: tornado (sv), tromb (sv) c
Tagalog: buhawi, ipo-ipo
Tajik: гирдбод (tg) (girdbod)
Tamil: சூறாவளி (ta) (cūṟāvaḷi)
Telugu: గాలివాన (te) (gālivāna), గాలికసురు (gālikasuru), ప్రచండమారుతము (pracaṇḍamārutamu)
Thai: ทอร์นาโด (tɔɔ-naa-doo)
Tibetan: རླུང་འཁོར་འཚུབ (rlung 'khor 'tshub)
Tigrinya: ህቦብላ ንፋስ (həbobla nəfas)
Turkish: hortum (tr)
Ukrainian: смерч m (smerč)
Uyghur: قۇيۇن‎ (quyun)
Uzbek: tornado (uz)
Vietnamese: vòi rồng, lốc xoáy (vi)
Welsh: gyrwynt m

References

“tornado”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

donator, odorant, tandoor

Danish

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

tornado

Inflection

Declension of tornado

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tornado	tornadoen	tornadoer	tornadoerne
genitive	tornados	tornadoens	tornadoers	tornadoernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

tornado f or m (plural tornado's, diminutive tornadootje n)

tornado

Esperanto

Tornado en Oklahomo

Etymology

From French tornade, Italian tornado, German Tornado, Yiddish טאָרנאַדאָ‎ (tornado), Russian торна́до (tornádo), Polish tornado, all derived from English tornado, itself a metathetic derivation of Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [torˈnado]
Audio:
(file)
Rhymes: -ado
Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

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

(meteorology) tornado
Mia kuzino loĝis en Kansaso dum kvin jaroj kaj spertis multajn danĝerajn tornadojn.
My cousin lived in Kansas for five years and experienced many dangerous tornadoes.

Finnish

Etymology

From English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtornɑdo/, [ˈt̪o̞rnɑdo̞]
Rhymes: -ornɑdo
Syllabification^(key): tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado

tornado

Declension

Inflection of tornado (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative		tornado	tornadot
genitive		tornadon	tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten
partitive		tornadoa	tornadoja tornadoita
illative		tornadoon	tornadoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tornado	tornadot
accusative	nom.	tornado	tornadot
accusative	gen.	tornadon	tornadot
genitive		tornadon	tornadojen tornadoiden tornadoitten
partitive		tornadoa	tornadoja tornadoita
inessive		tornadossa	tornadoissa
elative		tornadosta	tornadoista
illative		tornadoon	tornadoihin
adessive		tornadolla	tornadoilla
ablative		tornadolta	tornadoilta
allative		tornadolle	tornadoille
essive		tornadona	tornadoina
translative		tornadoksi	tornadoiksi
instructive		—	tornadoin
abessive		tornadotta	tornadoitta
comitative		—	tornadoineen

Possessive forms of tornado (type palvelu)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tornadoni	tornadomme
2nd person	tornadosi	tornadonne
3rd person	tornadonsa

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /torˈna.do/
Rhymes: -ado
Hyphenation: tor‧nà‧do

Noun

tornado m (invariable)

tornado

Anagrams

rotando, rotonda

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoer, definite plural tornadoene)

(meteorology) a tornado

References

“tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

tornado m (definite singular tornadoen, indefinite plural tornadoar, definite plural tornadoane)

(meteorology) a tornado

References

“tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔrˈna.dɔ/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -adɔ
Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado n

(meteorology) tornado
Synonym: trąba powietrzna

Declension

Declension of tornado

	singular	plural
nominative	tornado	tornada
genitive	tornada	tornad
dative	tornadu	tornadom
accusative	tornado	tornada
instrumental	tornadem	tornadami
locative	tornadzie	tornadach
vocative	tornado	tornada

or

Indeclinable.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /toʁˈna.du/ [toɦˈna.du]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /toɾˈna.du/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /toʁˈna.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /toɻˈna.do/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuɾˈna.du/ [tuɾˈna.ðu]

Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

(meteorology) tornado

Participle

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

past participle of tornar

Scots

Etymology

From English tornado.

Noun

tornado (plural tornadoes)

tornado

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Spanish tornado.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tǒrnaːdo/
Hyphenation: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tòrnādo m (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)

tornado

Declension

Declension of tornado

	singular	plural
nominative	tornado	tornada
genitive	tornada	tornada
dative	tornadu	tornadima
accusative	tornado	tornada
vocative	tornado	tornada
locative	tornadu	tornadima
instrumental	tornadom	tornadima

References

“tornado” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

From English tornado, and this in turn from Spanish tronada (see English etymology for details).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /toɾˈnado/ [t̪oɾˈna.ð̞o]
Rhymes: -ado
Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

Noun

tornado m (plural tornados)

tornado

Related terms

anticiclón m
ciclón m
huracán m
remolino m
tifón m
torbellino m

Participle

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

past participle of tornar

Anagrams

tronado, rotando, no tardo

[1] “tornado”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

tornado

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

References

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

Esperanto

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

See also

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Noun

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Noun

References

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

Participle

Scots

Etymology

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

References

Spanish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Participle

Further reading

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