tiempo

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• tiampo
• tems (Ribagorzan; presumably < Catalan temps)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Navarro-Aragonese tiempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjempo/
• Syllabification: tiem‧po
• Rhymes: -empo

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. time

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tiempo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “tiempo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjɛm.po/
• Rhymes: -ɛmpo
• Hyphenation: tièm‧po

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempi)

1. (Old Italian, Rome) Alternative form of tempo
   1. (uncountable) time (quantity of availability of duration)
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Tito Livio nella prima decada […] fao menzione de Alisantro de Macedonia: quanta iente abbe da pede e da cavallo, quanto tiempo durao soa signoria, quanto se stese per lo munno.

        Titus Livius, in the first Decade, […] mentioned Alexander of Macedonia: how many soldiers and knights he had; how long his reign lasted; how long he lived.

        (literally, “Titus Livius, in the first Decade, […] made mention of Alexander of Macedonia: how much people he had on foot and on horseback, how much time his lordship lasted, how much [time] he stayed in the world.”)

   2. time, age, period
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[2] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Tito Livio fece lo livro dello comenzamento de Roma fino allo tiempo de Ottaviano

        Titus Livius wrote the book about the beginnings of Rome, up to Octavian's time

   3. weather (the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)
      • 1350s, anonymous author, chapter XIV, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[3] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Puoi demannao que tiempo fussi. Folli respuosto e ditto che sopra li Englesi stava l’airo pulito como zaffino, sopra Franceschi stava lo tiempo atto a piovia.

        He then asked about the weather. The reply he received said that the air was as clear as a sapphire above the English, [and] the weather above the French was announcing rain.

        (literally, “Then he asked what weather was. He was answered and told that above the English was the air clean as sapphire, above French was the weather ready for rain.”)

Ladino

Alternative forms

• tyempo, tienpo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). Doublet of tempo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tiempo m (Hebrew spelling טיימפו)

1. (also physics) time
   • (Can we date this quote?), Folkmasa‎^[4]:

     no tengo tiempo de tomarme sehorá

     I don't have time for angst

2. while; period of time; long time; length of time; indeterminate amount of time
   • 2021 March 31, Esti SAUL, “La kamizika de la kortadura de fashadura ke topi kon los bonbones: La Sorpreza de PESAH”, in Şalom:

     "Mashalla, topates lo ke bushkates tanto tiempo, en un bogo en el fondo del baul - despues de haloshentos anyos!"

     "Congratulations, you found what you were looking for after so much time, in a bundle at the bottom of the trunk — after many hundreds of ill yearsǃ"

   • (Can we date this quote?), “El sheshauni me”, in Voces de Ḥaketía‎^[5]:

     Wa güeno pasó el tiempo y a todo esto la muĵer seguía tan sana como siempre, fresquita como una lechuga y ferte como un roble.

     So he passed the time and on top of that the woman stayed as healthy as always, fresh as lettuce and strong as oak.

3. era; age; epoch; period (time)
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Purim en Larache”, in Voces de Ḥaketía‎^[6]:

     La inosensia de los críos de mi tiempo!

     How innocent babies [were] in my time!

4. weather (the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Folkmasa‎^[7]:

     el tiempo está a la nieve

     the weather is snowy

Derived terms

• a tiempo

Related terms

• temporada
• temporado
• temporaneo
• temporario
• temprano

See also

• vez

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈtjemb(ə)]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈtimbə]

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempe)

1. time
   • 1634, Giambattista Basile, “Jornata seconna - VII [Second day - 7]”, in Lo cunto de li cunti [The tale of tales] (overall work in Neapolitan); republished as Benedetto Croce, editor, Lo cunto de li cunti (Il Pentamerone): Testo conforme alla prima stampa del MDCXXXIV - VI‎^[8], Naples: V. Vecchi, 1891, page 233:

     Ma, fra sto tiempo, che jette e venette, passaje da chelle case Nardo Aniello, lo figlio de lo re, che jeva a caccia.

     But during this time, which came and went by, Nardo Aniello, the king's son, passed near those houses, going to a hunt.

   • 1872 [1310s], Domenico Jaccarino, “Canto vintiquattesemo [Twenty-fourth canto]”, in Il Dante popolare, o La Divina Commedia in dialetto napolitano‎^[9], 2^nd edition, Naples, adaptation of Inferno by Dante Alighieri, pages 107–108:

     Lo cafòne […] / […] torna, e de speranza fa cuccagna, / Vedenno che lo munno à n'autra faccia / Mpoco tiempo, sonanno n'autro tasto / A ppàscere le ppecore già caccia.

     [original: lo villanello […] / […] riede, e la speranza ringavagna, / veggendo ’l mondo aver cangiata faccia / in poco d’ora, e prende suo vincastro / e fuor le pecorelle a pascer caccia.]

     The peasant […] / […] comes back, and makes a fortune in hope, seeing how the world has a different face, in little time, playing a different key, he already takes out the sheep to graze.

   • 1935, Giulio Camber Barni, “II - Oslavia”, in La buffa‎^[10] (overall work in Italian), Trieste: Stabilimento tipografico mutilati, pages 37–38:

     «Spirante, songo state / tutto 'o tiempo appriesso a te, ¶ e quando hai detto ai soldati: / «Avanti, avanti ragazzi… / ancora trenta passi! / Spirante, me si sembrato / proprio 'nu capetano!»

     "Aspirer, I've been by your side the whole time; and when you told the soldiers: "Come on, come on, boys!… Thirty more steps!" aspirer, you really looked like a captain to me!"

2. tense
3. weather (the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)

Derived terms

• a tiempo a tiempo (“on time”)
• avè tiempo e frisco (“to have to wait a while”)
• nu tiempo ca nun escono manco 'e sierpe (“extremely bad weather”, literally “weather into which not even snakes would venture”)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 363: “che tempo fa?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 32
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “tiémpo”, in Schedario Napoletano

Old Navarro-Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

tiempo m

1. time (period)
   • ca. 1376–1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, Ystorias de Orosio:

     Diuso de aquesti tiempo, Quintilio Vario faziendose subdito de los subiectos con marauellosa soberuia et grant auaricia, de los germanos qui se rebellauan fue destruido con tres legiones. El qual tajamiento et mortaldat de la republica Cesar Agusto la tenia en tanto por mala et grieu, que muchas vegadas por el grant dolor que dende auia, dando con la cabeça a la pared cridaua: "Quintilio Vario riendeme las legiones que yo te di."

     Before this time, Quinctilius Varus, having become a subject of the conquered with marvelous arrogance and great greed, was destroyed by German rebels along with three legions. Augustus took this reduction [in the forces], this mortality of the Republic, so badly and with such grief, that he would often, in great pain, hit his head against a wall shouting, "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!"

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. time (period)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 27r:

     […] ⁊ ſi deſpues en aquella agua moiarẽ el peyne ⁊ peynarẽ con el los cabellos tinnen ſe negros de tintura q̃ dura muy grand tiempo.

     And if after they were to wet the comb in that water and comb their hair with it, they would be dyed black with a very long-lasting dye.

Derived terms

• tiempo del verano

Descendants

• Ladino: tiempo, tyempo, tienpo, טיימפו
• Spanish: tiempo

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “tiempo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 495

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). Doublet of tempo. Compare both English tempo and English temperature.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjempo/ [ˈt̪jẽm.po]
• Rhymes: -empo
• Syllabification: tiem‧po

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. (also physics) time

   No tengo tiempo.

   I don't have time. / I haven't got time.

   • 1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Juan 7:6:

     Díceles entonces Jesús: Mi tiempo aun no ha venido; mas vuestro tiempo siempre está presto.

     Then Jesus says to them: My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready.

2. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time

   ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que vives aquí?

   How long have you been living here?

   Amiga, ha pasado demasiado tiempo.

   Friend, it's been too long.

   (literally, “Too much time has passed.”)

   Hace tiempo que yo no tomaba un buen trago.

   It's been a while since I've had a good drink.

3. (grammar) tense

   El verbo camina está en tiempo presente.

   The verb camina is in the present tense.

4. weather (the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)

   ¿Qué tiempo hace?

   What is the weather like? / How is the weather?

   Hace buen tiempo.

   The weather is fine.

Derived terms

• a buen fin no hay mal tiempo
• a largo tiempo
• a su debido tiempo
• a tiempo
• a tiempo completo
• a tiempos
• a un tiempo
• al correr del tiempo
• al mal tiempo, buena cara
• al mismo tiempo
• andando el tiempo
• antes de tiempo
• bomba de tiempo
• cada X tiempo
• cómo pasa el tiempo, cómo vuela el tiempo (“how time flies”)
• con el tiempo
• con tiempo
• contra el tiempo
• cuánto tiempo
• cuestión de tiempo
• dar tiempo
• dar tiempo al tiempo
• de tiempo
• de tiempo completo
• de tiempo en tiempo
• de un tiempo a esta parte
• del tiempo
• del tiempo de España
• del tiempo de Maricastaña
• dolores de tiempo
• dos tiempos
• ecuación del tiempo
• el tiempo dirá
• el tiempo es oro
• el tiempo vuela
• el tiempo y la marea ni se paran ni esperan
• en dos tiempos
• en mis tiempos (“in my day, back in my day”)
• en otro tiempo
• en tiempo
• en tiempo de Maricastaña
• en tiempo y forma
• en tiempos
• en tiempos de guerra cualquier agujero es trinchera
• ganar tiempo
• helecho de tiempo
• hombre del tiempo
• justo a tiempo
• la noche de los tiempos
• lapso de tiempo
• línea de tiempo
• máquina del tiempo
• medio tiempo
• motor de cuatro tiempos
• motor de dos tiempos
• no tener tiempo material
• pasar tiempo
• perder el tiempo
• plenitud de los tiempos
• por los viejos tiempos
• por tiempo
• pronóstico del tiempo
• quien hace un cesto hará ciento, si le dan mimbres y tiempo
• sin tiempo
• tener un buen tiempo
• tiempo añadido
• tiempo atrás
• tiempo compartido
• tiempo de descuento
• tiempo de fortuna
• tiempo de más
• tiempo de pasión
• tiempo de perros
• tiempo de reverberación
• tiempo ha
• tiempo inmemorial
• tiempo libre
• tiempo medio
• tiempo muerto
• tiempo ocio
• tiempo ordinario (“ordinary time”) (Catholicism, Christianity)
• tiempo parcial
• Tiempo Universal Coordinado
• tiempo verbal
• todo el tiempo
• un tiempo
• unidad de tiempo
• viajar en el tiempo
• viaje en el tiempo

Related terms

• temporal
• temporario
• temprano

See also

• vez

Further reading

• “tiempo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Teojomulco Chatino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus.

Noun

tiempo

1. time

References

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (2016 October) “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics‎^[11], page [8]