temo

See also: Temo

Languages (14)

Catalan • Chungli Ao • Classical Nahuatl • Esperanto • Galician • Ido • Italian • Japanese • Latin • Northern Sotho • Portuguese • Sotho • Spanish • Ternate

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈte.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte.mo]

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of témer

Chungli Ao

Noun

temo

1. fat
   • 1967, “1 Samuel 2:16”, in Ao Naga Common Language Bible, Bible Society of India:

     Asenoki temoji tamasa rongdi, ajiser nai kechisa aginür agiang

     They shall burn the fat first, then take whatever you want to take

Further reading

• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 36
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 118

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

temo (first conjugation, third-person singular imperfective temōya, third-person singular preterite temōc, third-person singular future temōz)

1. (intransitive) to descend

Conjugation

Conjugation of temō (See Appendix:Classical Nahuatl verbs)

Person	Singular			Plural
	First	Second	Third	First	Second	Third
	nehhuātl nehhua neh	tehhuātl tehhua teh	yehhuātl yehhua yeh	tehhuāntin tehhuān tehmeh	amehhuāntin amehhuān amehmeh	yehhuāntin yehhuān yehmeh
Indicative mood
Present	nitemo	titemo	temo	titemoh	antemoh	temoh
Present habitual	nitemōni	titemōni	temōni	titemōnih	antemōnih	temōnih
Imperfective	nitemōya ōnitemōya	titemōya ōtitemōya	temōya ōtemōya	titemōyah ōtitemōyah	antemōyah ōantemōyah	temōyah ōtemōyah
Preterite	nitemōc ōnitemōc	titemōc ōtitemōc	temōc ōtemōc	titemōqueh ōtitemōqueh	antemōqueh ōantemōqueh	temōqueh ōtemōqueh
Distant past	nitemōca ōnitemōca	titemōca ōtitemōca	temōca ōtemōca	titemōcah ōtitemōcah	antemōcah ōantemōcah	temōcah ōtemōcah
Future	nitemōz ōnitemōz	titemōz ōtitemōz	temōz ōtemōz	titemōzqueh ōtitemōzqueh	antemōzqueh ōantemōzqueh	temōzqueh ōtemōzqueh
Immediate future	nitemōznequi	titemōznequi	temōznequi	titemōznequih	antemōznequih	temōznequih
Conditional mode
	nitemōzquiya ōnitemōzquiya	titemōzquiya ōtitemōzquiya	temōzquiya ōtemōzquiya	titemōzquiyah ōtitemōzquiyah	antemōzquiyah ōantemōzquiyah	temōzquiyah ōtemōzquiyah
Optative mood
Non-past	nitemo	xitemo	temo	titemōcān	xitemōcān	temōcān
Past	nitemōni ōnitemōni	xitemōni ōxitemōni	temōni ōtemōni	titemōnih ōtitemōnih	xitemōnih ōxitemōnih	temōnih ōtemōnih
Future	nitemōz	titemōz	temōz	titemōzqueh	antemōzqueh	temōzqueh
Admonitive mood
	nitemoh	titemoh	temoh	titemohtin	antemohtin	temohtin

Note: These forms are autogenerated and may be incorrect

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French thème, Russian те́ма (téma), German Thema, English theme and Polish temat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemo/

• Audio 1:

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• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: te‧mo

Noun

temo (accusative singular temon, plural temoj, accusative plural temojn)

1. topic that something is about, subject, theme
2. (music) theme

Derived terms

• ĉeftemo (“main theme”)

Related terms

• temi pri (“to be on the subject of”)

Further reading

• “temo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “temo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Galician

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto temo, English theme, French thème, German Thema, Italian tema, Russian те́ма (téma), Spanish tema. Ultimately from Latin thēma, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.mo/

Noun

temo (plural temi)

1. topic, subject, theme

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin tēmō. Doublet of timone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo

Noun

temo m (plural temi)

1. (poetic, obsolete) helm, rudder

   Synonym: timone

Further reading

• temo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/, (traditional) /ˈte.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo, (traditional) -emo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo, (traditional) té‧mo

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temere

Anagrams

• mote

Japanese

Romanization

temo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ても

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain:

• Maybe from an Old Latin *teksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”). Cognates would then include Latin texō, Sanskrit तक्षति (takṣati), Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (tašaⁱti) Proto-Germanic *þahsuz, Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), τέκτων (téktōn), τέχνη (tékhnē).

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tenksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ- (“to pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognates would then include Proto-Germanic *þinhslō (“wagon pole, thill”).

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tensmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch”), another extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteː.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː.mo]

Noun

tēmō m (genitive tēmōnis); third declension

1. pole
2. tongue (of a carriage or plow)
3. beam

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tēmō	tēmōnēs
genitive	tēmōnis	tēmōnum
dative	tēmōnī	tēmōnibus
accusative	tēmōnem	tēmōnēs
ablative	tēmōne	tēmōnibus
vocative	tēmō	tēmōnēs

Descendants

• Italo-Romance: (may instead reflect Late Latin tīmō)
  • Italian: timone
  • Sicilian: timuni
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: tamon
  • Lombard: temon (Como)
  • Romansh: zamun
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: temon
    • Galician: temón, tamón, tomón
    • Portuguese: temão, tamão, tomão
• Borrowings:
  • → Berber: atemmu
    • Kabyle: atmun
    • Tarifit: atmun
  • →⇒ Byzantine Greek: τεμώνιον (temṓnion)

Reflexes of the Late Latin variant tīmō:

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: timone, timoni, timona
• North Italian:
  • Venetan: timon (see there for further descendants)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: timó
  • French: timon
  • Occitan: timon
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: timón
  • Portuguese: timão
  • Galician: timón
  • Spanish: timón

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “tēmo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 13: T–Ti, page 167

Further reading

• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "temo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “temo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Northern Sotho

Noun

temo

1. agriculture

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Sotho

Etymology

From lema.

Noun

temo class 9 (uncountable)

1. agriculture

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemo/ [ˈt̪e.mo]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: te‧mo

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temar
2. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *temo (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.mo]

Verb

temo

1. (intransitive) to crow
2. (transitive) to scold
3. (transitive) to slander

Conjugation

Conjugation of temo

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totemo	fotemo	mitemo
2nd person		notemo	nitemo
3rd person	masculine	otemo	itemo yotemo (archaic)
	feminine	motemo
	neuter	itemo

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh