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temporale¹

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin temporāle, substantivisation of temporālis (“of or pertaining to time”).

noun temporales

  1. A cycle of texts to be read or chanted at liturgical services on particular weeks and movable feasts throughout the year; a book that contains this cycle. The third and final volume of the temporale employs a different stave height and was clearly written later.

temporale²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish temporal (“storm”), perhaps via back-formation from the plural temporales.

noun temporales

  1. A rainy wind that blows into Central America from the southwest during the summer, often bringing stormy weather. Only two storms, Emily and Jennifer, developed over the Pacific; and of these, Emily formed within a temporale, over southern Mexico, that occurred in the wake of hurricane Camille.

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@misc{temporale_2026,
  title = {temporale},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/temporale},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}