tempestas

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Interlingua

Noun

tempestas

  1. plural of tempesta

Latin

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Etymology

From tempus (“time”) +‎ -tās.

Compare typologically Macedonian невреме (nevreme), Serbo-Croatian не̏вре̄ме akin to Macedonian време (vreme) (Serbo-Croatian вре́ме). Also compare Russian непого́да (nepogóda) (akin to год (god)).

Pronunciation

Noun

tempestās f (genitive tempestātis); third declension

  1. portion, point, or space of time; time, season, period
  2. (as time's physical qualities) weather (good or bad)
  3. (esp. bad weather) storm, tempest, gale
    Synonyms: turbō, procella
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.52–54:
      Hic vastō rēx Aeolus antrō
      luctantēs ventōs tempestātēsque sonōrās
      imperiō premit ac vinclīs et carcere frēnat.
      Here in a vast cave, King Aeolus –
      struggling stormwinds! and resounding tempests! –
      by command represses, both with chains and a prison restrains.
      (Through evocative word-sounds the poet repeats the consonants “s” and “t” to portray fantastical noises caused by trapped stormwinds. See literary consonance; Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
  4. (figuratively) commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tempestās tempestātēs
genitive tempestātis tempestātum
dative tempestātī tempestātibus
accusative tempestātem tempestātēs
ablative tempestāte tempestātibus
vocative tempestās tempestātēs

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References

  • “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "tempestas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tempestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a storm is rising: tempestas cooritur
    • to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci
    • a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
    • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    • to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi
    • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
  • tempestas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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