temperamental
English
Etymology
temperament + -al
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
Adjective
temperamental (comparative more temperamental, superlative most temperamental)
- (not comparable) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
- Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
- (of a machine or of software, figuratively) User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate.
Derived terms
Translations
emotional or moody, inconsistent
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English temperamental. By surface analysis, temperamento + -al.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tẽ.pe.ɾa.mẽˈtaw/ [tẽ.pe.ɾa.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.pɨ.ɾɐ.mẽˈtal/ [tẽ.pɨ.ɾɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tẽ.pɨ.ɾɐ.mẽˈta.li/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧men‧tal
Adjective
temperamental m or f (plural temperamentais)
- temperamental (regarding temperament)
- temperamental (who has untimely and intense reactions)
Further reading
- “temperamental” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “temperamental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From temperament + -al.
Adjective
temperamental m or n (feminine singular temperamentală, masculine plural temperamentali, feminine and neuter plural temperamentale)
Declension
Declension of temperamental
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | temperamental | temperamentală | temperamentali | temperamentale | ||
| definite | temperamentalul | temperamentala | temperamentalii | temperamentalele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | temperamental | temperamentale | temperamentali | temperamentale | ||
| definite | temperamentalului | temperamentalei | temperamentalilor | temperamentalelor | |||
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tempeɾamenˈtal/ [t̪ẽm.pe.ɾa.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧men‧tal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “temperamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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