tempus

See also Tempus

Finnish

Noun

tempus

1. (linguistics) tense

Declension

Declension of tempus (type vastaus) singular plural nominative tempus tempukset genitive tempuksen tempusten tempuksien partitive tempusta tempuksia accusative tempus tempuksen tempukset inessive tempuksessa tempuksissa elative tempuksesta tempuksista illative tempukseen tempuksiin adessive tempuksella tempuksilla ablative tempukselta tempuksilta allative tempukselle tempuksille essive tempuksena tempuksina translative tempukseksi tempuksiksi instructive – tempuksin abessive tempuksetta tempuksitta comitative – tempuksineen

Synonyms

• aikamuoto

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈtem.pus/

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stetch, string”), whence also templum (“shrine”) and tempora. Originally the word meant "what is stretched, stretching" > "stretch (of time)" > "time, occasion".

Noun

tempus (genitive temporis); n, third declension

1. time, period, age
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

   • 397-401, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones, Liber IV

     per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus

     During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tempus	tempora
genitive	temporis	temporum
dative	temporī	temporibus
accusative	tempus	tempora
ablative	tempore	temporibus
vocative	tempus	tempora

Derived terms

• extempore

Related terms

• pro tem
• pro tempore
• temporālis

• temporārius
• tempus fugit

Descendants

Anglo-Norman: tens Catalan: temps French: temps Galician: tempo Istriot: tenpo Italian: tempo

Neapolitan: tiempo Papiamentu: tempo Occitan: tèms Old Provençal: tems Portuguese: tempo Romanian: timp

Romansch: temp Russian: темп Sardinian: tempus Sicilian: tempu Spanish: tiempo

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“temple of the head”), related to Latin templum (“temple, temple of the head”). Cognate with Old English þunwang (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).

Noun

tempus (genitive tempōris); n, third declension

1. (anatomy) temple (of the head)

Descendants

• English: temple
• Esperanto: tempio
• French: temple
• Italian: tempia

• Portuguese: têmpora
• Romanian: tâmplă
• Spanish: tiempo

Etymology 3

Probably from tempus (“time”)

Noun

tempus (genitive tempi); m, second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, rare) weather

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	tempus	tempī
genitive	tempī	tempōrum
dative	tempō	tempīs
accusative	tempum	tempōs
ablative	tempō	tempīs
vocative	tempe	tempī

Descendants

• French: temps
• Galician: tempo
• Italian: tempo
• Neapolitan: tiempo

• Papiamentu: tempo
• Portuguese: tempo
• Romanian: timp
• Spanish: tiempo