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temporale

temporale noun: 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.

Noun (1)

temporale (plural 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.2003, Pia Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, →ISBN, page 53
    • In the Roman rite, this period of the year is known as ‘ordinary time’ and, like the Old Hispanic rite, mostly uses quotidian materials for the temporale.2022, Emma Hornby, Raquel Rojo Carrillo, “The Liturgical Year in the Old Hispanic Rite”, in Emma Hornby et al., editors, Understanding the Old Hispanic Office: Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early...

Noun (2)

temporale (plural 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.1970, Neil F. Frank, “Atlantic Tropical Systems of 1969”, in Monthly Weather Review, volume 98, number 4, page 310

Forms of temporale

pluraltemporales

Origin of temporale

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

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

Questions about temporale

What does temporale mean?
Temporale means 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.
What part of speech is temporale?
Temporale is a noun.
What is the plural of temporale?
The plural of temporale is temporales.

Words near temporale in the dictionary

  1. temporal logics
  2. temporal muscle
  3. temporal muscles
  4. temporal organ
  5. temporal organs
  6. temporale
  7. temporales
  8. temporalis
  9. temporalise
  10. temporalised
  11. temporalises

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