See also: Tempestas

Interlingua

edit

Noun

edit

tempestas

  1. plural of tempesta

Latin

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From tempus (time) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

tempestās f (genitive tempestātis); third declension

  1. portion, point, or space of time; time, season, period
  2. (as time's physical qualities) weather (good or bad)
  3. (esp. bad weather) storm, tempest, gale
    Synonyms: turbō, procella
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.52–54:
      [...] Hic vastō rēx Aeolus antrō
      luctantēs ventōs tempestātēsque sonōrās
      imperiō premit ac vinclīs et carcere frēnat.
      Here in a vast cave, King Aeolus –
      struggling stormwinds! and resounding tempests! –
      by [his] command represses, both with chains and a prison [he] restrains.

      (Through evocative word-sounds the poet repeats the consonants “s” and “t” to portray fantastical noises caused by trapped stormwinds. See literary consonance; Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
  4. (figuratively) commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune

Declension

edit

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

edit

Antonyms

edit

Derived terms

edit

Descendants

edit

References

edit
  • 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