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See also: temporâl

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

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.
    Synonyms: secular, lay, civil
    Antonyms: spiritual, ecclesiastical
    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)
    • 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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Translations

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

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

Etymology 2

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.

Adjective

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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Noun

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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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

Pronunciation

Noun

temporal m (plural temporals)

  1. storm

Adjective

temporal m or f (masculine and feminine plural temporals)

  1. temporary
  2. temporal

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Cimbrian

Noun

temporàl m

  1. (Luserna) thunderstorm

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. (anatomy) temporal
    lobe temporal ― temporal lobe

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

Derived terms

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

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

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

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German

Pronunciation

Adjective

temporal (strong nominative masculine singular temporaler, not comparable)

  1. temporal
    Synonym: zeitlich

Declension

Positive forms of temporal (uncomparable)
More information number & gender, singular ...
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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed 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)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

temporal m or f (plural temporais, not comparable)

  1. temporal (relating to time)
    Synonym: crónico
  2. secular
    Synonym: secular
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Etymology 2

From tempo (“weather”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. downpour; heavy rain
    Synonyms: tempestade, vendaval

Etymology 3

From têmpora (“temple of the head”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

  1. temporal bone
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French temporel.

Adjective

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

  1. temporal (bone)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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)

Derived terms

Noun

temporal m (plural temporales)

  1. storm
    Synonyms: tempestad, vendaval

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