Temporary
The adjective temporary has the meaning “only lasting for a certain time”, “temporarily”, “temporarily”. It is assigned to the noun “tempo” in its original meaning. Borrowed in the 17th century from the Italian tempo , this from the Latin tempus ("time", "section"), it meant "time", "time segment".
Theodor Fontane wrote in the 19th century in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg about straw huts in the Wustrauer Luch that served as temporary living spaces:
- “Along with a hundred similar dwellings that can be found here and everywhere in the Luche, they form temporary living spaces for those thousands of workers who leave the hilltop villages in the surrounding area in summer to descend into the Luch for around four months and dig peat there to earn high daily wages. "
Temporary can be found today as a component of multi-word terms that are used in different subject areas, for example in:
- Temporary architecture , temporary structures and buildings with a limited lifespan and useful life
- Temporary files for temporary storage of data
- Temporary parasites that, like mosquitoes and leeches, only need a host for a short period of their lives
- Temporary racetracks in motorsport (for example, for rally tests, street circuit or airport car races , autocross and ice races ) are created or blocked off immediately before and for a limited time for the relevant competition. The best-known example here is the Monaco Grand Prix at the Circuit de Monaco .
Web links
Wiktionary: temporary - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. 24th edition, 2002, Lemma Tempo