Latin

Noun

tempestās f ‎(genitive tempestātis); third declension

1. storm, tempest
2. weather
3. season

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (storm, tempest): tranquillum

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tempestas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016