temporal

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈtɛmp.ɜː(ɹ).əl/, X-SAMPA: /"tEmp.3:(r).@l/

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English temporal, from Old French temporal, from Latin temporalis, from tempus (season, time, opportunity).

Adjective [edit]

temporal (comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

  1. Of or relating to time.
  2. Of limited time; not perpetual.
  3. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 166:
      Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
  4. Lasting a short time only.
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Noun [edit]

temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (chiefly plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
    • Lowell
      He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

Etymology 2 [edit]

From New Latin temporalis, from Latin tempora (the temples), plural of tempus (temple, head, face).

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temporal (comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

  1. of the temples of the head
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Noun [edit]

temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (anatomy) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
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Galician [edit]

Adjective [edit]

temporal m and f (plural temporais)

  1. temporal, pertaining to time
  2. temporal, pertaining to the temples of the head
  3. (grammar) of a grammatical case in Hungarian

Noun [edit]

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

Norwegian Bokmål [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Late Latin temporalis, from Latin tempus (time)

Adjective [edit]

temporal (masculine temporal; feminine temporal; neuter temporalt; plural temporale;comparative mer temporal; superlative mest temporal)

  1. temporal (related to time)
  2. temporal (related to the temples)

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  • “temporal” in The Bokmål DictionaryDokumentasjonsprosjektet.
  • temporal” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Latin temporālis (temporal), from tempus (season, time, opportunity), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (stretch).

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temporal m and f (plural temporais; uncomparable)

  1. temporal (relating to time)
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From tempo (weather).

Noun [edit]

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. downpour; heavy rain
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Etymology 3 [edit]

From têmpora (temple of the head).

Noun [edit]

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. temporal bone
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Spanish [edit]

Adjective [edit]

temporal m and f (plural temporales)

  1. temporary

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temporal m (plural temporales)

  1. storm

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