tempestat

Inherited from Old Catalan tempestat, from Latin tempestātem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təm.pəsˈtat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tem.pesˈtat]

tempestat f (plural tempestats)

1. storm, tempest

   Synonyms: tempesta, temporal

• “tempestat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tempestat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tempestat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tempestat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin tempestās, tempestātem, based on tempus (“time”).

• IPA^(key): /tempesˈtat/

tempestat f (plural tempestades)

1. storm, tempest
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 13v:

     DEl ſeteno grado del ſigno de tauro es la piedra que tira los hueſſos Et fallan la en la yſla de ſardenna aſſi q̃ quando faz grand tẽpeſtat en la mar, echan las ondas eſtas piedras ala oriella.

     Of the seventh degree of the sign of Taurus is the stone that pulls the bones. It is found on the island of Sardinia, so that when there is a great storm at sea, the waves cast these stones onto the shore.

• tormenta f

• Spanish: tempestad