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See also: Tornado, tornádo, and tornádó

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia

Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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tornado (plural tornadoes or tornados)

A tornado in Oklahoma
  1. (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground. Synonym: twister
    • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, 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.

Synonyms

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  • twister (informal)

Hypernyms

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  • whirlwind

Coordinate terms

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  • cumulonimbus
  • derecho
  • devil
  • devil wind
  • dust devil
  • fire devil
  • fire whirl
  • hook formation
  • landspout
  • plow wind
  • spout
  • supercell
  • thermal
  • updraft
  • waterspout
  • whirl

Derived terms

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  • firenado
  • horse tornado
  • -nado
  • pornado
  • rope tornado
  • snownado
  • stovepipe tornado
  • tornadic
  • Tornado Alley
  • tornado brain
  • tornado chaser
  • tornado drill
  • tornado fry
  • tornado hunter
  • tornado omelette
  • tornado omurice
  • tornado outbreak
  • tornado potato
  • tornado shelter
  • tornado siren
  • tornado warning (“a tornado has been sighted”)
  • tornado watch (“conditions are favorable for producing a tornado”)
  • volnado
  • wedge tornado

Descendants

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

Translations

[edit] violent windstorm
  • Adyghe: гъуэжькуий (ğʷɛźkʷujij)
  • Arabic: إِعْصَار m (ʔiʕṣār)
  • Armenian: պտտահողմ (hy) (pttahoġm)
  • Azerbaijani: tornado, qasırğa, burulğan (az)
  • 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, skypumpe (da) 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: बवंडर (hi) m (bavaṇḍar)
  • Hungarian: tornádó (hu)
  • Icelandic: skýstrokkur m, hvirfilbylur m
  • Indonesian: tornado (id)
  • 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 (ja) (torunēdo)
  • Kannada: ತುಫಾನು (kn) (tuphānu), ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ (kn) (birugāḷi), ಸುಂಟರಗಾಳಿ (kn) (suṇṭaragāḷi)
  • Kazakh: құйын (qūiyn)
  • Khmer: ខ្យល់ព្យុះ (khyɑl pyuh)
  • Korean: 폭풍 (ko) (pokpung), 토네이도 (toneido)
  • Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: bablîsok (ku)
  • Latin: turbō (la) m, vertex m
  • 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
  • Ottoman Turkish: بوراغان (burağan), طولومبه (tulumba)
  • Persian: گردباد (fa) (gerdbâd)
  • Plautdietsch: Wirbelstorm m
  • Polish: trąba powietrzna (pl) f, tornado (pl) m
  • Portuguese: ciclone (pt) m, tornado (pt) m
  • Punjabi: ਬਵੰਡਰ (bavaṇḍar)
  • Romanian: tornadă (ro) f
  • Russian: смерч (ru) m (smerč), торна́до (ru) m (tornádo)
  • Samoan: āsiosio
  • Sanskrit: चक्रवातः (sa) m (cakravātaḥ)
  • Scots: tornado
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: то̀рна̄до m Roman: tòrnādo (sh) m
  • Spanish: tornado (es) m, ciclón (es) m, tifón (es) m, huracán (es) m, baguio 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 (vi), lốc xoáy (vi)
  • Welsh: gyrwynt m
  • Yiddish: טאָרנאַדאָ m (tornado)

Verb

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tornado (third-person singular simple present tornados, present participle tornadoing, simple past and past participle tornadoed)

  1. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To sweep through something violently.
    • 2012, Robin Nicole, For the Sake of Appearances:And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.
    • 2015, James Richardson, Reservations: Poems, page 5:They come every night,those cavernous trains, tornadoingthe frozen house,a madness feeling for the door.

See also

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  • cyclone, dust devil, waterspout, willy willy
  • hurricane, typhoon
  • tournedo(s)

References

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

Anagrams

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  • donator, odorant, tandoor

Danish

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Etymology

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From English tornado.

Noun

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tornado c (singular definite tornadoen, plural indefinite tornadoer)

  1. tornado

Inflection

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commongender singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tornado tornadoen tornadoer tornadoerne
genitive tornados tornadoens tornadoers tornadoernes

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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

  1. tornado

Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia eo
Tornado en Oklahomo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /torˈnado/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: tor‧na‧do

Noun

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

  1. (meteorology) tornado Mia kuzino loĝis en Kansaso kaj spertis multajn danĝerajn tornadojn.My cousin lived in Kansas and experienced many dangerous tornadoes.

Finnish

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Etymology

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From English tornado, from Spanish tronada.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtornɑdo/, [ˈt̪o̞rnɑ̝do̞]
  • Rhymes: -ornɑdo
  • Syllabification(key): tor‧na‧do
  • Hyphenation(key): tor‧na‧do

Noun

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tornado

  1. tornado

Declension

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Inflection of tornado (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative tornado tornadot
genitive tornadon tornadojentornadoidentornadoitten
partitive tornadoa tornadojatornadoita
illative tornadoon tornadoihin
singular plural
nominative tornado tornadot
accusative nom. tornado tornadot
gen. tornadon
genitive tornadon tornadojentornadoidentornadoitten
partitive tornadoa tornadojatornadoita
inessive tornadossa tornadoissa
elative tornadosta tornadoista
illative tornadoon tornadoihin
adessive tornadolla tornadoilla
ablative tornadolta tornadoilta
allative tornadolle tornadoille
essive tornadona tornadoina
translative tornadoksi tornadoiksi
abessive tornadotta tornadoitta
instructive — tornadoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of tornado (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative tornadoni tornadoni
accusative nom. tornadoni tornadoni
gen. tornadoni
genitive tornadoni tornadojenitornadoidenitornadoitteni
partitive tornadoani tornadojanitornadoitani
inessive tornadossani tornadoissani
elative tornadostani tornadoistani
illative tornadooni tornadoihini
adessive tornadollani tornadoillani
ablative tornadoltani tornadoiltani
allative tornadolleni tornadoilleni
essive tornadonani tornadoinani
translative tornadokseni tornadoikseni
abessive tornadottani tornadoittani
instructive — —
comitative — tornadoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative tornadosi tornadosi
accusative nom. tornadosi tornadosi
gen. tornadosi
genitive tornadosi tornadojesitornadoidesitornadoittesi
partitive tornadoasi tornadojasitornadoitasi
inessive tornadossasi tornadoissasi
elative tornadostasi tornadoistasi
illative tornadoosi tornadoihisi
adessive tornadollasi tornadoillasi
ablative tornadoltasi tornadoiltasi
allative tornadollesi tornadoillesi
essive tornadonasi tornadoinasi
translative tornadoksesi tornadoiksesi
abessive tornadottasi tornadoittasi
instructive — —
comitative — tornadoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative tornadomme tornadomme
accusative nom. tornadomme tornadomme
gen. tornadomme
genitive tornadomme tornadojemmetornadoidemmetornadoittemme
partitive tornadoamme tornadojammetornadoitamme
inessive tornadossamme tornadoissamme
elative tornadostamme tornadoistamme
illative tornadoomme tornadoihimme
adessive tornadollamme tornadoillamme
ablative tornadoltamme tornadoiltamme
allative tornadollemme tornadoillemme
essive tornadonamme tornadoinamme
translative tornadoksemme tornadoiksemme
abessive tornadottamme tornadoittamme
instructive — —
comitative — tornadoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative tornadonne tornadonne
accusative nom. tornadonne tornadonne
gen. tornadonne
genitive tornadonne tornadojennetornadoidennetornadoittenne
partitive tornadoanne tornadojannetornadoitanne
inessive tornadossanne tornadoissanne
elative tornadostanne tornadoistanne
illative tornadoonne tornadoihinne
adessive tornadollanne tornadoillanne
ablative tornadoltanne tornadoiltanne
allative tornadollenne tornadoillenne
essive tornadonanne tornadoinanne
translative tornadoksenne tornadoiksenne
abessive tornadottanne tornadoittanne
instructive — —
comitative — tornadoinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative tornadonsa tornadonsa
accusative nom. tornadonsa tornadonsa
gen. tornadonsa
genitive tornadonsa tornadojensatornadoidensatornadoittensa
partitive tornadoaantornadoansa tornadojaantornadoitaantornadojansatornadoitansa
inessive tornadossaantornadossansa tornadoissaantornadoissansa
elative tornadostaantornadostansa tornadoistaantornadoistansa
illative tornadoonsa tornadoihinsa
adessive tornadollaantornadollansa tornadoillaantornadoillansa
ablative tornadoltaantornadoltansa tornadoiltaantornadoiltansa
allative tornadolleentornadollensa tornadoilleentornadoillensa
essive tornadonaantornadonansa tornadoinaantornadoinansa
translative tornadokseentornadoksensa tornadoikseentornadoiksensa
abessive tornadottaantornadottansa tornadoittaantornadoittansa
instructive — —
comitative — tornadoineentornadoinensa

See also

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  • pyörremyrsky
  • trombi

Further reading

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  • “tornado”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Galician

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Participle

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

  1. past participle of tornar

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English tornado.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tornado m (usually invariable, plural (rare) tornadi)

  1. tornado

Further reading

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  • tornado in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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  • rotando, rotonda

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia no

Etymology

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From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

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

  1. (meteorology) a tornado

References

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  • “tornado” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia nn

Etymology

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From Spanish tronada, via English tornado.

Noun

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

  1. (meteorology) a tornado

References

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  • “tornado” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia pl
tornado

Etymology

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Borrowed from English tornado.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tornado n (indeclinable)

  1. (meteorology) tornado, twister, whirlwind (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground) Synonyms: cyklon, trąba, trąba powietrzna
  2. (figurative) tsunami (violent event that changes or completely shatters the previous state of something) Synonym: tsunami
  3. (figurative) tsunami, flood (appearance of some emotion, behavior, or phenomenon in large quantities or in high intensity) [with genitive] Synonyms: natłok, tsunami

Declension

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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.

Further reading

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  • tornado in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tornado in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • tornado in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /toʁˈna.du/ [toɦˈna.du]
  • (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

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tornado m (plural tornados)

  1. (meteorology) tornado

Participle

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

  1. past participle of tornar

Further reading

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  • “tornado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
  • “tornado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Scots

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Etymology

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From English tornado.

Noun

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tornado (plural tornadoes)

  1. tornado

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Spanish tornado.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tòrnādo m inan (Cyrillic spelling то̀рна̄до)

  1. tornado

Declension

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

References

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  • “tornado”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia es

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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tornado m (plural tornados)

  1. tornado
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  • anticiclón m
  • ciclón m
  • huracán m
  • remolino m
  • tifón m
  • torbellino m

Participle

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

  1. past participle of tornar

Further reading

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  • “tornado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

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  • tronado, rotando

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:tornadoWikipedia sv

Noun

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tornado c

  1. a larger tornado (especially in the US) Synonym: (more general) tromb

Declension

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nominative genitive
singular indefinite tornado tornados
definite tornadon tornadons
plural indefinite tornados, tornador tornados, tornadors
definite tornadorna tornadornas

References

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  • tornado in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tornado in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tornado in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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