temporal

See also: temporàl and temporâl

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əl/

Etymology 1

From Middle English temporal, 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?)
    • Lowell
      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. 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.
Translations

Further reading

  • temporal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • temporal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Catalan

Noun

temporal m (plural temporals)

  1. storm

Galician

Temporal

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛmpoˈɾal/

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (weather) storm, tempest
    Synonym: tempestade

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

Adjective

temporal m, 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

    Synonyms

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Etymology

    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

    • temporær

    References

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌtẽ.po.ˈɾaw/
    • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.pu.ˈɾaɫ/

    Etymology 1

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

    Adjective

    temporal m, f (plural temporais, not comparable)

    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
    Hypernyms
    Holonyms
    Coordinate terms

    Spanish

    Etymology

    From Latin temporālis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tempoˈɾal/, [t̪ẽmpoˈɾal]

    Adjective

    temporal (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

    Further reading

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