tempesta

See also: Tempesta, tempèsta, tempestà, and tempestă

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempestās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təmˈpes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [temˈpes.ta]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -esta

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempestes)

1. storm, tempest

   Synonyms: temporal, tempestat

References

• “tempesta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tempesta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tempesta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tempesta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Interlingua

Noun

tempesta (plural tempestas)

1. storm, tempest
   • 2000 January 23, Stan Mulaik, “¿qué pasa?”, in alt.language.spanish‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Illes parti a Cuba, mais durante le viage un grande tempesta affunda le nave.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2001 April 13, Mardy, “Fwd:Humor:Le missa”, in it.fan.marco-ditri‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Le dominica sequente ille ha applicate le suggestion e se ha sentite tanto ben, tanto felice e libere de inhibitiones, que ille poterea parlar forte mesmo in medio a un tempesta.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• tempore

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /temˈpɛ.sta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: tem‧pè‧sta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tempestās via the nominative form. Doublet of tempestà.

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempeste)

1. storm, tempest

   Synonyms: (literary) procella, (literary) verno

2. (figurative) shower

   tempesta di pugni ― shower of blows

Derived terms

• la quiete prima della tempesta
• tempesta in un bicchiere d'acqua
• tempestare
• tempestoso

 

Further reading

• tempesta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tempesta

1. inflection of tempestare:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tempesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛmˈpɛs.ta/

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempesti)

1. storm, squall

Related terms

• intemperanza
• mezzutemp
• temp
• temperament
• temperamentali
• temperanza
• temperat
• temperatura
• tempestuż
• temporanjament
• temporanju

 

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tempestās.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /temˈpɛstə/

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempeste)

1. storm

   Mo, d''o vierno, 'e ttempeste/mo, n'aria 'e primmavera...

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Sicilian

Noun

tempesta f

1. Alternative form of timpesta

Further reading

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “tempesta”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4246