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Etymology
Inherited from Latin tempestās.
Pronunciation
Noun
tempesta f (plural tempestes)
- storm, tempest
- Synonyms: temporal, tempestat
References
Interlingua
Noun
tempesta (plural tempestas)
- storm, tempest
2000 January 23, Stan Mulaik, “¿qué pasa?”, in alt.language.spanish (Usenet):Illes parti a Cuba, mais durante le viage un grande tempesta affunda le nave.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2001 April 13, Mardy, “Fwd:Humor:Le missa”, in it.fan.marco-ditri (Usenet):Le dominica sequente ille ha applicate le suggestion e se ha sentite tanto ben, tanto felice e libere de inhibitiones, que ille poterea parlar forte mesmo in medio a un tempesta.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /temˈpɛ.sta/
- Rhymes: -ɛsta
- Hyphenation: tem‧pè‧sta
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin tempestās via the nominative form. Doublet of tempestà.
Noun
tempesta f (plural tempeste)
- storm, tempest
- Synonyms: (literary) procella, (literary) verno
- (figurative) shower
- tempesta di pugni ― shower of blows
Derived terms
Further reading
- tempesta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tempesta
- inflection of tempestare:
- third-person singular present
- second-person singular imperative
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tempesta.
Pronunciation
Noun
tempesta f (plural tempesti)
- storm, squall
Related terms
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin tempestās.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /temˈpɛstə/
Noun
tempesta f (plural tempeste)
- storm
Mo, d''o vierno, 'e ttempeste/mo, n'aria 'e primmavera...- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Sicilian
Noun
tempesta f
- Alternative form of timpesta
Further reading
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “tempesta”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4246