temporal

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See also: temporâl

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English temporal, borrowed from Old French temporal, from Latin temporālis, from tempus (“season, time, opportunity”).

Adjective

temporal (comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

  1. (also grammar) Of or relating to time.
  2. Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.
    • Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
      The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  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.
  5. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
    temporal power; temporal courts
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
    • (Can we date this quote by Lowell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

temporal (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) of the temples of the head
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (anatomy) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
  2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
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Further reading

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporalis.

Pronunciation

Noun

temporal m (plural temporals)

  1. storm

Adjective

temporal m or f (masculine and feminine plural temporals)

  1. temporal

Cimbrian

Noun

temporàl m

  1. (Luserna) thunderstorm

References

Galician

Temporal

Etymology

13th century. Borrowed from Latin temporālis, from tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (weather) rainstorm, windstorm
    Synonym: vendaval
  2. (weather) tempest
    Synonym: tempestade

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

Adjective

temporal m or f (plural temporais)

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

References


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛmpoˈʀaːl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

temporal (not comparable)

  1. temporal

Declension

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Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin temporālis, from Latin tempus (“time”).

Adjective

temporal (neuter singular temporalt, definite singular and plural temporale)

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

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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  1. temporal (relating to time)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From tempo (“weather”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. downpour; heavy rain
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From têmpora (“temple of the head”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. temporal bone
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Holonyms
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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tempoˈɾal/ [t̪ẽm.poˈɾal]

Adjective

temporal m or f (masculine and feminine plural temporales)

  1. temporal (of or relating to time)
  2. temporary
    Synonym: temporario
  3. (anatomy) temporal (of the temples of the head)

Derived terms

Noun

temporal m (plural temporales)

  1. storm
    Synonyms: tempestad, vendaval

Derived terms

Further reading

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