tempest Copy link • tempest: tempestas, intempĕries: v. storm. Phr.: to raise a t. in a tea-pot, fluctus in simpulo, ut dicitur, excitare, Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 36: sailors overtaken by a t., deprensi nautae, Virg. G. 4, 421: t.-tossed, jactatus, Hor. Od. 1, 32, 7: Cic.