tempestas

See also: Tempestas

Interlingua

Noun

tempestas

1. plural of tempesta

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Latin

Etymology

From tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /temˈpes.taːs/, [t̪ɛmˈpɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /temˈpes.tas/, [t̪emˈpɛst̪äs]

Noun

tempestās f (genitive tempestātis); third declension

1. storm, tempest
2. weather
3. season

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tempestās	tempestātēs
Genitive	tempestātis	tempestātum
Dative	tempestātī	tempestātibus
Accusative	tempestātem	tempestātēs
Ablative	tempestāte	tempestātibus
Vocative	tempestās	tempestātēs

Synonyms

• (season): hōra
• (winter): hiems
• (storm, tempest): hiems, procella, tumultus

Antonyms

• (storm, tempest): tranquillum

Derived terms

• tempestīvus
• tempestuōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: tempesta
• Dutch: tempeest
• English: tempest
• French: tempête
• Friulian: tampieste
• Galician: tempestade
• Irish: timpiste
• Istriot: tenpesta

• Italian: tempesta
• Occitan: tempèsta
• Portuguese: tempestade
• Romansch: tempesta, tempiasta, tampeasta, tampesta
• Sicilian: timpesta
• Spanish: tempestad
• Venetian: tenpesta

References

• “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tempestas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tempestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a storm is rising: tempestas cooritur
    
  • to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    
  • a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
    
  • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi
    
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
• tempestas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016