# tempestas
## Interlingua
### Noun

tempestas
* plural of tempesta

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* tempestūs

### Etymology

From tempus (“time”) +‎ -tās.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /temˈpes.taːs/, [t̪ɛmˈpɛs̠t̪äːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /temˈpes.tas/, [t̪emˈpɛst̪äs]

### Noun

tempestās f (genitive tempestātis); third declension
* portion, point, or space of time; time, season, period
* (as time's physical qualities) weather (good or bad)
* (esp. bad weather) storm, tempest, gale
    Synonyms: turbō, procella
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.52–54:[...] Hic vastō rēx Aeolus antrō luctantēs ventōs tempestātēsque sonōrās imperiō premit ac vinclīs et carcere frēnat.Here in a vast cave, King Aeolus – struggling stormwinds! and resounding tempests! – by [his] command represses, both with chains and a prison [he] restrains. (Through evocative word-sounds the poet repeats the consonants “s” and “t” to portray fantastical noises caused by trapped stormwinds. See literary consonance; Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
* (figuratively) commotion, disturbance; calamity, misfortune

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (season): hōra
* (winter): hiems
* (storm, tempest): hiems, procella, tumultus, intemperiēs

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “storm, tempest”): tranquillum

#### Derived terms

* tempestīvus
* tempestuōsus
* Tempestātes (“the weather-goddess”)

#### Descendants

* Catalan: tempesta, tempestat
* Dutch: tempeest
* Old French: tempeste
** French: tempête
** → Middle English: tempest
*** English: tempest
*** → Middle Irish: tubaiste
**** Irish: tubaiste
**** Scottish Gaelic: tubaist
* Friulian: tampieste
* Galician: tempestade
* Irish: timpiste
* Istriot: tenpesta
* Italian: tempesta
* Occitan: tempèsta
* Portuguese: tempestade
* → Romanian: tempestate
* Romansch: tempesta, tempiasta, tampeasta, tampesta
* Sicilian: timpesta
* Spanish: tempestad
* Venetan: tenpesta, tompesta

### References

* “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “tempestas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* tempestas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* tempestas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a storm is rising: tempestas cooritur to meet with good weather: tempestatem idoneam, bonam nancisci a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt to be driven out of one's course; to drift: tempestate abripi the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
* tempestas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016