different between fleeting vs temporal

English

Etymology

From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English fl?otan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fli?t??/

Adjective

fleeting (comparative more fleeting, superlative most fleeting)

1. Passing quickly; of short duration.
   • 1931, Martha Kinross, "The Screen — From This Side", The Fortnightly, Volume 130, page 511:

     Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.

   • 2003, Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It, Three Rivers Press (2003), ?ISBN, pages 34-35:

     During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.

   • 2008, Barbara L. Bellman & Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again, iUniverse (2008), ?ISBN, page 12:

     For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.

   • 2010, Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace, Harvest House Publishers (2010), ?ISBN, page 5:

     And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.

Synonyms

• ephemeral
• See also Thesaurus:ephemeral.

Translations

Usage notes

Often used with nouns indicating mental, perceptual, or emotional states, such as: "a fleeting thought", "a fleeting glimpse" "a fleeting impression", "a fleeting hope", or to indicate that the shortness of duration might be regretted : "fleeting beauty", "fleeting youth".

Verb

fleeting

1. present participle of fleet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?m.p?.??l/
• Rhymes: -?mp???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin tempor?lis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) +? -?lis.

Adjective

temporal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

   Synonyms: secular, lay, civil

   Antonyms: spiritual, ecclesiastical
2. Relating to time:
   1. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
      1. (euphemistic) Lasting for a short time only.
   2. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
   3. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.

      Synonym: chronological

   4. (grammar) Relating to or denoting time or tense.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
   • 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League (originally in French by Louis Maimbourg)

     for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals

   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Dante

     He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.

Etymology 2

Middle English, borrowed from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin tempor?lis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.

Adjective

temporal (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

temporal (plural temporals)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of temporal bone.
2. (zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

References

• “temporal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “temporal”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• temporal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporalis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /t?m.po??al/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /t?m.pu??al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tem.po??al/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

temporal m (plural temporals)

1. storm

Adjective

temporal (masculine and feminine plural temporals)

1. temporary
2. temporal

Derived terms

• lòbul temporal
• temporalment

Related terms

• temps

Further reading

• “temporal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “temporal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “temporal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “temporal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

temporàl m

1. (Luserna) thunderstorm

References

• “temporal” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin tempor?lis, from tempus (“temple”) (whence tempe).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.p?.?al/

Adjective

temporal (feminine singular temporale, masculine plural temporaux, feminine plural temporales)

1. (anatomy) temporal

Derived terms

• os temporal

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with temporel.

Further reading

• “temporal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

13th century. Borrowed from Latin tempor?lis, from tempus (“time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?mpo??al/

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. (weather) rainstorm

   Synonyms: ballón, invernada

2. (weather) windstorm

   Synonym: vendaval

3. (weather) tempest

   Synonym: tempestade

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. (anatomy) the temporal bone

Adjective

temporal m or f (plural temporais)

1. temporal, pertaining to time
2. temporal, transient, as opposed to eternal
3. temporal, pertaining to the temples of the head
4. (grammar) of a grammatical case in Hungarian

References

• “temporal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “temporal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “temporal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “temporal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “temporal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?mpo??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

temporal (not comparable)

1. temporal

Declension

Synonyms

• zeitlich

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin tempor?lis, from Latin tempus (“time”).

Adjective

temporal (neuter singular temporalt, definite singular and plural temporale)

1. temporal (related to time)
2. temporal (related to the temples)

Derived terms

• temporalia

Related terms

• temporær

References

• “temporal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “temporal” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?.po.??aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?.pu.??a?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tempor?lis (“temporal”), from tempus (“season, time, opportunity”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”).

Adjective

temporal m or f (plural temporais, not comparable)

1. temporal (relating to time)

   Synonym: crónico

Related terms

Etymology 2

From tempo (“weather”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. downpour; heavy rain

   Synonyms: tempestade, vendaval

Etymology 3

From têmpora (“temple of the head”).

Noun

temporal m (plural temporais)

1. temporal bone

Hypernyms

• osso

Holonyms

• crânio

Coordinate terms

• occipital, parietal, frontal, esfenoide, etmoide

Romanian

Etymology

From French temporel.

Adjective

temporal m or n (feminine singular temporal?, masculine plural temporali, feminine and neuter plural temporale)

1. temporal (bone)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tempor?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempo??al/, [t??m.po??al]

Adjective

temporal (plural temporales)

1. temporal (of or relating to time)
2. temporary

   Synonym: temporario

3. (anatomy) temporal (of the temples of the head)

Derived terms

Related terms

• temporalidad

Noun

temporal m (plural temporales)

1. storm

   Synonyms: tempestad, vendaval

Derived terms

• capear el temporal

Further reading

• “temporal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.