temporarius

== Latin == === Etymology === From the oblique stem of tempora (“the times”), singular tempus (“time, period, age, season”) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛm.pɔˈraː.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tem.poˈraː.ri.us] === Adjective === temporārius (feminine temporāria, neuter temporārium); first/second-declension adjective appropriate to the times, timely; according to the age; proper to the season, seasonable; trendy, fashionable, contemporary fitting to time and circumstance; opportune to the moment, kairos, window of opportunity dependent on a set of transient conditions transitory; ephemeral; mutable, adapting to conform to the era; aging, changing with the passage of time; mortal, material, worldly, secular temporal, temporary; limited to a finite period; lasting but for a set duration of time; bound by the chronological constraints of mortality, materialism ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → English: temporary, contemporary → French: temporaire → Portuguese: temporário → Romanian: temporar, timporar → Spanish: temporero, temporario === References === “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “temporarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “temporarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1552. temporarius in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3050