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temporal

See also: temporâl

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) +‎ -ālis.

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temporal (not generally comparable, comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

  1. (relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
    temporal power, temporal courts
    The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled (The official title of the House of Lords)
    Synonyms: secular, lay, civil
    Antonyms: spiritual, ecclesiastical
    • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:
      The [papal] train was in use until 1871, when the Pope [Pius IX] lost his temporal power.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin Books, page 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.
  2. (relational) Relating to time:
    1. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
      1. (euphemistic) Lasting for a short time only.
    2. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
    3. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
      Synonym: chronological
    4. (grammar) Relating to or denoting time or tense.
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temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

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From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.

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temporal (not comparable)

  2. (anatomy, relational) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
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temporal (plural temporals)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of temporal bone.
  2. (zootomy) 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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Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

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temporal m (plural temporals)

  1. storm

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temporal m or f (masculine and feminine plural temporals)

  1. temporary
  2. temporal

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temporàl m

  1. (Luserna) thunderstorm

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French

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Borrowed from New Latin temporālis, from tempus (“temple”) (whence tempe).

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temporal (feminine temporale, masculine plural temporaux, feminine plural temporales)

  1. (anatomy) temporal
    lobe temporal ― temporal lobe

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Galician

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Temporal

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

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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

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temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (weather) rainstorm
    Synonyms: ballón, invernada
  2. (weather) windstorm
    Synonym: vendaval
  3. (weather) tempest
    Synonym: tempestade

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temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

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temporal (strong nominative masculine singular temporaler, not comparable)

  1. temporal
    Synonym: zeitlich

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Positive forms of temporal (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist temporal sie ist temporal es ist temporal sie sind temporal
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative temporaler temporale temporales temporale
genitive temporalen temporaler temporalen temporaler
dative temporalem temporaler temporalem temporalen
accusative temporalen temporale temporales temporale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der temporale die temporale das temporale die temporalen
genitive des temporalen der temporalen des temporalen der temporalen
dative dem temporalen der temporalen dem temporalen den temporalen
accusative den temporalen die temporale das temporale die temporalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein temporaler eine temporale ein temporales (keine) temporalen
genitive eines temporalen einer temporalen eines temporalen (keiner) temporalen
dative einem temporalen einer temporalen einem temporalen (keinen) temporalen
accusative einen temporalen eine temporale ein temporales (keine) temporalen

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

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

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

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.puˈɾal/ [tẽ.puˈɾaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.puˈɾa.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: tem‧po‧ral

Etymology 1

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

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temporal m or f (plural temporais, not comparable)

  1. temporal (relating to time)
    Synonym: crónico
  2. secular
    Synonym: secular
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From tempo (“weather”).

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temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. downpour; heavy rain
    Synonyms: tempestade, vendaval

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From têmpora (“temple of the head”).

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temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. temporal bone
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French temporel.

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temporal m or n (feminine singular temporală, masculine plural temporali, feminine and neuter plural temporale)

  1. temporal (bone)

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite temporal temporală temporali temporale
definite temporalul temporala temporalii temporalele
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dative 		indefinite temporal temporale temporali temporale
definite temporalului temporalei temporalilor temporalelor

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Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

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  • IPA(key): /tempoˈɾal/ [t̪ẽm.poˈɾal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: tem‧po‧ral

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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)

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temporal m (plural temporales)

  1. storm
    Synonyms: tempestad, vendaval

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