tempus

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (declension-3, literally, neuter) a time (a portion or period of time)
2. (declension-3, especially, literally, neuter) a time (a portion or period of time)
3. (declension-3, literally, neuter, usually) time
4. (declension-3, literally, neuter) the kairos, right time, due season, due time, proper time, appointed time, opportune time, opportunity
5. (declension-3, in-plural, neuter) the temples (sides of the head)
6. (declension-3, neuter, poetic) (in general) the face, visage; the head
7. (declension-3, neuter) the state of the times, position, state, condition; (in the plural) the times, circumstances (the time or age in its moral aspects)
8. (declension-3, neuter, rhetoric) time; measure, quantity
9. (declension-3, neuter) a tense (property of a verb that indicates the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs)
10. (Medieval-Latin, declension-3, neuter, rare) the weather

Sinonieme

tempestas

tempestās

hora

punctum

spatium

aera

tempora

plusquamperfectum

aetas

aetās

dies

Vertalings

Zeit

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time

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temps

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tiempo

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tempo

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tempo

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χρόνος

tijd

⌚

temps

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zaman

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wext

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tempe

temps

وقت

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈtɛm.pʊs]

Etimologie (Engels)

From Proto-Italic *tempos; thence, two ultimate origins have been proposed:
* From Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the extension *temp- of the root *ten- (“to stretch, string”), with meaning development "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion".
* From Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”), thus "a section (of time)", this root also giving Latin temnō, tondeō, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō). templum is a possible cognate that has also been assigned to both roots.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek τὰ καίρῐᾰ (tà kaírĭă, “the vital or fatal place (on the body)”), from καιρός (kairós, “time, opportunity, etc.”), and is less frequent in singular form. Compare Old English þunwang (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).
As seen from the adverb temperī, the noun would originally have declined like genus.