Dictionaries › Galician

temporal

Pronunciation: /tɛmpoˈɾal/

“temporal” is a Galician word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

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

noun

  1. rainstorm
  2. windstorm
  3. tempest
  4. the temporal bone

In Galician

  1. Relativo ó paso do tempo.
  2. Pouco duradeiro.
  3. Relativo ó tempo gramatical.
  4. Non relixioso.
  5. Óso par do cranio situado a ámbolos dous lados da parte inferior deste, á altura das orellas.
  6. Perturbación violenta da atmosfera con abundante choiva e vento ─e ás veces outros fenómenos─ que provoca ondas de gran altura no mar.

Etymology

13th century. Learned borrowing from Latin temporālis, from tempus (“time”).

More Galician words

About this dictionary

The Galician dictionary on Glottosphere has 38,147 entries with a page. Browse the Galician dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Galician are from the Galician Wiktionary, under the same licence.