tempesta

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempestās.

Pronunciation

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempestes)

  1. storm, tempest
    Synonyms: temporal, tempestat

References

Interlingua

Noun

tempesta (plural tempestas)

  1. 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)

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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)

  1. storm, tempest
    Synonyms: (literary) procella, (literary) verno
  2. (figurative) shower
    tempesta di pugnishower 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

  1. inflection of tempestare:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tempesta.

Pronunciation

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempesti)

  1. storm, squall

Related terms

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tempestās.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /temˈpɛstə/

Noun

tempesta f (plural tempeste)

  1. 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

  1. 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