intempestive

From Latin intempestīvus, from in- + tempestīvus (“seasonable”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv/

intempestive (comparative more intempestive, superlative most intempestive)

1. (now rare) Untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , New York, 2001, p.106:

     Luxus funerum [display at funerals], shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.

intempestive (plural intempestives)

1. inopportune, untimely

• “intempestive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

intempestive

1. feminine plural of intempestivo

intempestīve

1. vocative masculine singular of intempestīvus

• intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• intempestive in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intempestive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• IPA^(key): /ˌintempesˈtive/

intempestive

1. feminine plural of intempestiv