temporal

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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.
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to time
of limited time
of or relating to the material world
(euphemistic for) lasting a short time only

Noun

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

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

Adjective

temporal (comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

  1. of the temples of the head
Derived terms
Translations
of the temples of the head

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (anatomy) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
Translations
temples of the head

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Galician

Adjective

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

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone
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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin temporalis, from Latin tempus (“time”)

Adjective

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)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • temporær

References

  • “temporal” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
  • “temporal” in The Ordnett Dictionary
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Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

temporal m and f (plural temporais; uncomparable)

  1. temporal (relating to time)
Synonyms
Related terms

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
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Spanish

Adjective

temporal m and f (plural temporales)

  1. temporary

Synonyms

Noun

temporal m (plural temporales)

  1. storm

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Last modified on 27 April 2013, at 01:39