tempo
Meaning
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- (masculine,uncountable) time (the progression from the present into the future)
- (masculine,uncountable) time (quantity of availability of duration)
- (masculine) a duration of time, especially a long one
- (masculine,uncountable) weather (state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)
- (masculine) time; era; period
- (masculine) season (part of a year when something particular happens)
- (masculine) tense (forms of a verb which distinguish when an action occurs)
- (masculine) a subdivision of the duration of a match (such as halves in football, quarters in basketball)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tem‧po
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtẽ.pu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).
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