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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.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wi??a (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?k??d, IPA^(key): /?w?k?d/

Adjective

wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked)

1. Evil or mischievous by nature.

   Synonyms: evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous; see also Thesaurus:evil

2. (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.

   Synonyms: awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad; see also Thesaurus:excellent

Usage notes

Use of "wicked" as an adjective rather than an adverb is considered an error in the Boston dialect. However, that is not necessarily the case in other New England dialects.

Derived terms

• wickedly
• wickedness
• wicked tongue

Translations

Adverb

wicked (not comparable)

1. (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.

   Synonyms: hella, helluv (both Californian/regional, and both potentially considered mildly vulgar)

Translations

Etymology 2

See wick.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?kt, IPA^(key): /w?kt/

Verb

wicked

1. simple past tense and past participle of wick

Adjective

wicked (not comparable)

1. Having a wick.

Derived terms

• multiwicked

Etymology 3

See wick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?k?d/

Adjective

wicked

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.
2. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
3. Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.

References

Middle English

Adjective

wicked

1. Alternative form of wikked