temporal

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əl/

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

temporal (comparative more temporal, superlative most temporal)

1. (also grammar) Of or relating to time.
2. Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.
   • Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18

     The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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.
5. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

   temporal power; temporal courts

temporal (plural temporals)

1. (chiefly in the 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.

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

temporal (not comparable)

1. of the temples of the head

• anterotemporal
• centrotemporal
• temporal bone
• temporal lobe

temporal (plural temporals)

1. (anatomy) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

• temporal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• temporal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Borrowed from Latin temporalis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /təm.poˈɾal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /təm.puˈɾal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tem.poˈɾal/

temporal m (plural temporals)

1. storm

temporal (masculine and feminine plural temporals)

1. temporal

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

• IPA^(key): /tɛmpoˈɾal/

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. (weather) storm, tempest

   Synonym: tempestade

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

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

• “temporal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “temporal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “temporal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “temporal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “temporal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /tɛmpoˈʀaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

temporal (not comparable)

1. temporal

• zeitlich

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

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

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

• temporalia

• temporær

• “temporal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “temporal” in The Ordnett Dictionary

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtẽ.po.ˈɾaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tẽ.pu.ˈɾaɫ/

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

temporal m or f (plural temporais, not comparable)

1. temporal (relating to time)

• crónico

From tempo (“weather”).

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. downpour; heavy rain

• tempestade, vendaval

From têmpora (“temple of the head”).

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. temporal bone

• osso

• crânio

• occipital, parietal, frontal, esfenoide, etmoide

Borrowed from Latin temporālis.

• IPA^(key): /tempoˈɾal/, [t̪ẽmpoˈɾal]

temporal (plural temporales)

1. temporal (of or relating to time)
2. temporary

   Synonym: temporario

3. (anatomy) temporal (of the temples of the head)

• espaciotemporal
• infratemporal
• temporalmente

• temporalidad

temporal m (plural temporales)

1. storm

   Synonyms: tempestad, vendaval

• capear el temporal

• “temporal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.