temperatura

See also: temperatūra, temperatură, and temperaturą

Aragonese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempeɾaˈtuɾa/
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

temperatura f

1. temperature

Related terms

• temperar

Further reading

• 2022 October, Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA) (version 13) (in Aragonese), page 2253
• 2024 October, Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán: Estudio de Filología Aragonesa (version 14) (in Aragonese), page 1076
• “temperatura”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempeɾaˈtuɾa/ [t̪ẽm.pe.ɾaˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperatures)

1. temperature

Further reading

• “temperatura”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təm.pə.ɾəˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tem.pe.ɾaˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

temperatura f (plural temperatures)

1. temperature

Related terms

• temperar

Further reading

• “temperatura”, 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
• “temperatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “temperatura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “temperatura”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tem.pe.ɾaˈtu.ɾa̝/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperaturas)

1. temperature

Derived terms

• temperatura absoluta
• temperatura crítica

Further reading

• “temperatura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “temperatura”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• temperatura, in Digalego: Dicionario de Galego (in Galician), Xunta de Galicia
• temperatura, in Dicionario de pronuncia da lingua galega (in Galician), Instituto da Lingua Galega, 2025

Italian

Etymology

From Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tem.pe.raˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tù‧ra

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperature)

1. temperature (a measure of cold or hot, of a body or environment)

Related terms

• termo-
• -termia

See also

• febbre
• caldo
• freddo
• fresco
• grado

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *temp-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-der.?

Proto-Italic *tempos

▲

Ancient Greek καίρῐος (kaírĭos)sl.

Latin tempus

Latin *tempos, *tempes-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin temperō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin temperātūra

From temperō (“divide duly, mix in due proportion”) + -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛm.pɛ.raːˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tem.pe.raˈtuː.ra]

Noun

temperātūra f (genitive temperātūrae); first declension

1. due or proper measure, proportion, composition or quality
2. (physics, New Latin) temperature

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	temperātūra	temperātūrae
genitive	temperātūrae	temperātūrārum
dative	temperātūrae	temperātūrīs
accusative	temperātūram	temperātūrās
ablative	temperātūrā	temperātūrīs
vocative	temperātūra	temperātūrae

Related terms

• temperō

Descendants

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Occitan: tempradura
• Borrowed:
  • → Aragonese: temperatura
  • → Asturian: temperatura
  • → Catalan: temperatura
  • → English: temperature
  • → French: température
  • → Galician: temperatura
  • → German: Temperatur
  • → Italian: temperatura
  • → Latvian: tem̃peratũra
  • → Lithuanian: temperatūrà
  • → Norman: tempéthatuthe
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: temperatur
  • → Occitan: temperatura
  • → Portuguese: temperatura
  • → Romanian: temperatură
  • → Russian: температу́ра (temperatúra)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: temperatúra / температу́ра
  • → Sicilian: timpiratura
  • → Slovene: temperatura
  • → Spanish: temperatura
  • → Venetan: tenperadura

References

• “temperatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “temperatura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Maltese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian temperaturabor.

Maltese temperatura

Borrowed from Italian temperatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛm.pɛ.raˈtuː.ra/
• Rhymes: -uːra

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperaturi)

1. temperature

Related terms

• intemperanza
• mezzutemp
• passatemp
• temp
• temperament
• temperamentali
• temperanza
• temperat
• tempesta
• tempestuż
• temporanjament
• temporanju

Occitan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tempeɾaˈtyɾo]

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

temperatura f (plural temperaturas)

1. temperature

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *temp-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-der.?

Proto-Italic *tempos

▲

Ancient Greek καίρῐος (kaírĭos)sl.

Latin tempus

Latin *tempos, *tempes-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin temperō

Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?

Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?

Latin -tūra

Latin temperatūralbor.

French températurelbor.

Polish temperatura

Learned borrowing from French température. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛm.pɛ.raˈtu.ra/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /tɛm.pɛ.raˈtu.ra/, /tem.pɛ.raˈtu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura f (diminutive temperaturka, related adjective temperaturowy)

1. temperature (measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer)
2. temperature (state of heat of an organism or of one's body)

   Synonym: ciepłota

3. temperature (elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses)

   Synonym: gorączka

4. temperature (intensity of something, especially of emotions; general mood)

   Synonym: nastrój

5. temperature (strong emotions)

Declension

Declension of temperatura

	singular
nominative	temperatura
genitive	temperatury
dative	temperaturze
accusative	temperaturę
instrumental	temperaturą
locative	temperaturze
vocative	temperaturo

Derived terms

nouns

• temperatura punktu rosy

Descendants

• → Kashubian: temperatura
• → Silesian: tymperatura

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), temperatura is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 71 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 2 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 620th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• “temperatura”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “temperatura”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• Magdalena Majdak (15.11.2021), “TEMPERATURA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “temperatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “temperatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 42
• temperatura in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tẽ.pe.ɾaˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tẽ.pe.ɾaˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tẽ.pe.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ/

• • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /tẽpɛɾaˈtuɾɐ/

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperaturas)

1. temperature (a measure of cold or hot)

Related terms

• temperar

Further reading

• “temperatura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “temperatura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /temperatǔːra/
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatúra f (Cyrillic spelling температу́ра)

1. temperature

Declension

Declension of temperatura

	singular	plural
nominative	temperatura	temperature
genitive	temperature	temperatura
dative	temperaturi	temperaturama
accusative	temperaturu	temperature
vocative	temperaturo	temperature
locative	temperaturi	temperaturama
instrumental	temperaturom	temperaturama

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛmpɛratúːra/

Noun

temperatȗra f

1. temperature (a measure of cold or hot)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	temperatúra
gen. sing.	temperatúre
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	temperatúra	temperatúri	temperatúre
genitive (rodȋlnik)	temperatúre	temperatúr	temperatúr
dative (dajȃlnik)	temperatúri	temperatúrama	temperatúram
accusative (tožȋlnik)	temperatúro	temperatúri	temperatúre
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	temperatúri	temperatúrah	temperatúrah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	temperatúro	temperatúrama	temperatúrami

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempeɾaˈtuɾa/ [t̪ẽm.pe.ɾaˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura f (plural temperaturas)

1. temperature

Derived terms

• escala de temperaturas
• grado de temperatura
• temperatura ambiente
• temperatura de transición vítrea

Related terms

• temperar

Further reading

• “temperatura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish temperatura, a learned borrowing from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tempeɾaˈtuɾa/ [t̪ɛm.pɛ.ɾɐˈt̪uː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜆᜓᜇ)

1. temperature

   Synonym: (neologism) kaintan

See also

• init

Turkmen

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Russian температура (temperatura), from Latin temperātūra.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

temperatura (definite accusative temperaturany, plural temperaturalar)

1. temperature

Declension

Declension of temperatura

	singular	plural
nominative	temperatura	temperaturalar
accusative	temperaturany	temperaturalary
genitive	temperaturanyň	temperaturalaryň
dative	temperaturā	temperaturalara
locative	temperaturada	temperaturalarda
ablative	temperaturadan	temperaturalardan

Further reading

• “temperatura” in Enedilim.com
• “temperatura” in Webonary.org

Uzbek

Noun

temperatura (plural temperaturalar)

1. temperature

Declension

Declension of temperatura

	singular	plural
nominative	temperatura	temperaturalar
genitive	temperaturaning	temperaturalarning
dative	temperaturaga	temperaturalarga
definite accusative	temperaturani	temperaturalarni
locative	temperaturada	temperaturalarda
ablative	temperaturadan	temperaturalardan
similative	temperaturadek	temperaturalardek

Possessive forms of temperatura

1st person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturam	temperaturalarim
genitive	temperaturamning	temperaturalarimning
dative	temperaturamga	temperaturalarimga
definite accusative	temperaturamni	temperaturalarimni
locative	temperaturamda	temperaturalarimda
ablative	temperaturamdan	temperaturalarimdan
similative	temperaturamdek	temperaturalarimdek
2nd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturang	temperaturalaring
genitive	temperaturangning	temperaturalaringning
dative	temperaturangga	temperaturalaringga
definite accusative	temperaturangni	temperaturalaringni
locative	temperaturangda	temperaturalaringda
ablative	temperaturangdan	temperaturalaringdan
similative	temperaturangdek	temperaturalaringdek
3rd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturasi	temperaturalari
genitive	temperaturasining	temperaturalarining
dative	temperaturasiga	temperaturalariga
definite accusative	temperaturasini	temperaturalarini
locative	temperaturasida	temperaturalarida
ablative	temperaturasidan	temperaturalaridan
similative	temperaturasidek	temperaturalaridek
1st person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturamiz	temperaturalarimiz
genitive	temperaturamizning	temperaturalarimizning
dative	temperaturamizga	temperaturalarimizga
definite accusative	temperaturamizni	temperaturalarimizni
locative	temperaturamizda	temperaturalarimizda
ablative	temperaturamizdan	temperaturalarimizdan
similative	temperaturamizdek	temperaturalarimizdek
2nd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturangiz	temperaturalaringiz
genitive	temperaturangizning	temperaturalaringizning
dative	temperaturangizga	temperaturalaringizga
definite accusative	temperaturangizni	temperaturalaringizni
locative	temperaturangizda	temperaturalaringizda
ablative	temperaturangizdan	temperaturalaringizdan
similative	temperaturangizdek	temperaturalaringizdek
3rd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	temperaturasi	temperaturalari
genitive	temperaturasining	temperaturalarining
dative	temperaturasiga	temperaturalariga
definite accusative	temperaturasini	temperaturalarini
locative	temperaturasida	temperaturalarida
ablative	temperaturasidan	temperaturalaridan
similative	temperaturasidek	temperaturalaridek