Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/tempos

This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch, string”), whence also templum (“shrine”). Originally the word meant "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion". Or from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂- (“to cut”). Thus a section (of time). See also Latin temnō, tondeō, templum, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō). Compare the etymology of English time.

• Note that as indicated by the the adverb temperī the noun would originally have declined like genus.

Noun

*tempos n

1. stretch; or section, period (of time. See etymology)
2. time

Declension

consonant stemDeclension of *tempos (consonant stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	*tempos	*tempezā
vocative	*tempos	*tempezā
accusative	*tempos	*tempezā
genitive	*tempezes, tempezos	*tempezom
dative	*tempezei	*tempezəβos
ablative	*tempezi? tempeze?	*tempezəβos
locative	*tempezi? tempeze?	*tempezəβos

Descendants

• Latin: tempus (see there for further descendants)