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tornado

Meaning

tornar

  1. (transitive) to return
  2. (intransitive) to come back; to go back
  3. (transitive) to put back
  4. (transitive) to change
  5. (catenative) to (do) again
  6. (intransitive) to revive (to recover from a state of unconsciousness)
  7. (reflexive) to become (e.g. change in a characteristic, nature of something or status)

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
tor‧na‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/toɾˈnado/
Etymology

In summary

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

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