tempestivus

== Latin == === Etymology === From tempestās (“time, season”) +‎ -īvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛm.pɛsˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tem.pesˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === tempestīvus (feminine tempestīva, neuter tempestīvum); first/second-declension adjective timely, opportune, fitting early, betimes (of a person) mature ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “timely, opportune”): intempestīvus ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== temperō tempestās tempus ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: tempestiu → English: tempestive → Italian: tempestivo → Portuguese: tempestivo → Spanish: tempestivo === References === “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tempestivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tempestivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.