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Latin
Etymology
From the oblique stem of tempora (“the times”), singular tempus (“time, period, age, season”) + -ārius (“-ary”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
temporārius (feminine temporāria, neuter temporārium); first/second-declension adjective
- appropriate to the times, timely; according to the age; proper to the season, seasonable; trendy, fashionable, contemporary
- fitting to time and circumstance; opportune to the moment, kairos, window of opportunity dependent on a set of transient conditions
- transitory; ephemeral; mutable, adapting to conform to the era; aging, changing with the passage of time; mortal, material, worldly, secular
- temporal, temporary; limited to a finite period; lasting but for a set duration of time; bound by the chronological constraints of mortality, materialism
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- temporarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1552.
- temporarius in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3050