tempestà

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See also: tempesta, Tempesta, tempèsta, and tempestă

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tempestātem (“time; season”). Doublet of tempesta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tem.pesˈta/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧stà

Noun

tempestà f (invariable)

  1. (obsolete, rare)
    1. storm
      • 1504–1514 (date written), Chariteo, In la morte de don Innico de Avelos, lines 232–234; republished as Erasmo Pèrcopo, editor, Le rime di Benedetto Gareth detto il Chariteo, secondo le due stampe originali, volume 1, Naples, 1892, page 352:
        A i miglior dà fortuna amari frutti, / Mutando in tempestà l’onda tranquilla, / E i superbi trïomphi in tristi lutti.
        Chance bears bitter fruits for the best, changing the calm wave into storm, and the haughty triumphs into sad mourning.
    2. circumstance
      Synonym: circostanza

Further reading

  • tempestà in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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