tempo

Meaning

1. (masculine) time
2. (masculine) season
3. (masculine) age
4. (masculine) period
5. (masculine) weather
6. (masculine) tense

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtempo/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: tempus

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Sentences

Todo isto levaba o seu tempo .

All of this took his time.

Con perspectiva do tempo , que ten máis valor ?

With a time perspective, which is more valuable?

A gran maioría das tumbas teñen o patio destruído polo paso do tempo .

The vast majority of tombs have the courtyard destroyed by the passage of time.

Un adolescente leva moito tempo encerrado na casa .

A teenager has been locked up in the house for a long time.

Ese tempo , di , aproveitarán para que as os nenos " rematen as clases".

That time, he says, will be used to get the kids to "finish the classes."

Estes méritos convertérono durante moito tempo en libro de ensino .

These merits have long turned it into a textbook.