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Interlingua
Noun
tempestas
- plural of tempesta
Latin
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
- portion, point, or space of time; time, season, period
- (as time's physical qualities) weather (good or bad)
- (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).)
- (figuratively) commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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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