temporarius

Latin

Etymology

From the oblique stem of tempora (“the times”), singular tempus (“time, period, age, season”) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tem.poˈraː.ri.us/, [t̪ɛmpɔˈräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tem.poˈra.ri.us/, [t̪empoˈräːrius]

Adjective

temporārius (feminine temporāria, neuter temporārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. appropriate to the times, timely; according to the age; proper to the season, seasonable; trendy, fashionable, contemporary
2. fitting to time and circumstance; opportune to the moment, kairos, window of opportunity dependent on a set of transient conditions
3. transitory; ephemeral; mutable, adapting to conform to the era; aging, changing with the passage of time; mortal, material, worldly, secular
4. temporal, temporary; limited to a finite period; lasting but for a set duration of time; bound by the chronological constraints of mortality, materialism

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	temporārius	temporāria	temporārium		temporāriī	temporāriae	temporāria
genitive	temporāriī	temporāriae	temporāriī		temporāriōrum	temporāriārum	temporāriōrum
dative	temporāriō	temporāriae	temporāriō		temporāriīs
accusative	temporārium	temporāriam	temporārium		temporāriōs	temporāriās	temporāria
ablative	temporāriō	temporāriā	temporāriō		temporāriīs
vocative	temporārie	temporāria	temporārium		temporāriī	temporāriae	temporāria

Descendants

• → English: temporary, contemporary
• → French: temporaire
• → Portuguese: temporário
• → Romanian: temporar, timporar
• → Spanish: temporero, temporario

References

• “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• temporarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1552.
• temporarius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3050