Etymograph

English

tempestive

Tempestive comes from Latin tempestivus ‘timely, opportune, fitting’, and goes back to tempestās ‘time, season’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtempestās‘time, season’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīvus
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtempestivus‘timely, opportune, fitting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1635tempestive

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtempestās‘time, season’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEīvus
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtempestivus‘timely, opportune, fitting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1635tempestive

Earliest quotation: 1635, Thomas Heywood: “Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun,…”

Linked words

through Latin īvus

positive, native, festival, naive, naïve, nativity, festive, festivity, 9 more

Today it means

adj seasonable; timely

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin tempestās / tempestive

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