From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2007]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], the more common form of [grc], from [grc] + [grc].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Something which lasts for a short period of time .
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Lasting for a short period of time .
2. * 1821-1822 , [Vicesimus Knox] , _Remarks on the tendency of certain Clauses in a Bill now pending in Parliament to degrade Grammar Schools_
3. *: Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of EPHEMERAL popularity shall have gradually subsided.
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1853 | author= [James Stephen (civil servant)] | title=Lecture on the right use of Books
|passage=sentences not of EPHEMERAL, but of eternal, efficacy}}
1. * [1=en]
2. [en] Existing for only one day , as with some flower s, insect s, and disease s.
3. [en] Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
4. * 1986 , W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Yūichi Murakami et al. (editors), _New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology_ (conference proceedings), Elsevier, [978-0-444-98981-9] , page 80 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=Rcwqu800Vj0C&pg=PA80&dq=ephemeral) :
5. *: The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in EPHEMERAL lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|ephemeralize|ephemeralness|nonephemeral|unephemeral |bovine ephemeral
fever|ephemeral fever|ephemeral lake|ephemerally|ephemeralization|ephemeral
state}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[lasting for a short period of time]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id] < !-- [t-SOP] if non-idiomatic; see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese:
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh] , [sh]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [technical term - botanics, biology etc]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[existing for only one day]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [pedia]
[en]