German

Noun

Tempus n ‎(genitive Tempus, plural Tempora)

1. tense

Synonyms

• Zeit

Hyponyms

• Aorist, Futur, Imperfekt, Paulopostfuturum, Perfekt, Plusquampefekt, Präsens

Derived terms

• Consecutio temporum, Consecutio Temporum

Finnish

Noun

tempus

1. (linguistics) tense

Declension

Synonyms

• aikamuoto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.pus/, [ˈtɛm.pʊs]

Etymology 1

• From Proto-Indo-European *tempos ‎(“stretch”), from the root *temp- ‎(“to stretch, string”), whence also templum ‎(“shrine”) and tempora. Originally the word meant "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion".
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂- ‎(“to cut”). Thus a section (of time). See also Latin temnō, tondeō, templum, Ancient Greek τέμνω ‎(témnō).

Noun

tempus n ‎(genitive temporis); third declension

1. time, period, age
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.II

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

   • c. 29 bc, Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgicon, III.284

     sed fvgit interea fvgit inreparabile tempvs

     But it flees, meanwhile, it flees... irretrievable time.

   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 4

     per idem tempus annorum novem, ab undevicensimo anno aetatis meae usque ad duodetricensimum, seducebamur et seducebamus

     During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.

2. (grammar) tense

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

• extemplō
• ex tempore
• temperō
• tempestās
• temporālis

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‎(“temple of the head”), related to Latin templum ‎(“temple, temple of the head”). Cognate with Old English þunwang ‎(“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge ‎(“forehead, temples”).

Noun

tempus n ‎(genitive tempōris); third declension

1. (anatomy) temple (of the head)

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Descendants

Etymology 3

Probably from tempus ‎(“time”)

Noun

tempus m ‎(genitive tempi); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, rare) weather

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• tempus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tempus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TEMPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tempus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be separated by an immense interval of space and time: intervallo locorum et temporum disiunctum esse
    
  • time passes: tempus praeterit, transit
    
  • to have time for a thing: tempus habere alicui rei
    
  • I have no time to do something: tempus mihi deest ad aliquid faciendum
    
  • to pass one's time in doing something: tempus consumere in aliqua re
    
  • to waste time on something: tempus terere, conterere (in) aliqua re
    
  • to employ one's time in..: tempus conferre ad aliquid
    
  • to devote time to anything: tempus tribuere alicui rei
    
  • to lose no time: tempus non amittere, perdere
    
  • to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
    
  • to spend time: tempus ducere
    
  • to put off till another time; to postpone: aliquid in aliud tempus, in posterum differre
    
  • to require, give, take time for deliberation: tempus (spatium) deliberandi or ad deliberandum postulare, dare, sibi sumere
    
  • to accommodate oneself to circumstances: tempori servire, cedere
    
  • since the time that, since (at the beginning of a sentence): ex quo tempore or simply ex quo
    
  • at the same moment that, precisely when: eo ipso tempore, cum; tum ipsum, cum
    
  • occasions arise for..: incidunt tempora, cum
    
  • circumstances demand: tempus (ita) fert (not secum)
    
  • it is high time that..: tempus maximum est, ut
    
  • the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • in the time of Pericles: aetate (temporibus) Periclis
    
  • in old days, in the olden time: antiquis temporibus
    
  • the imperial epoch: tempora Caesariana
    
  • a man of considerable learning for those times: vir ut temporibus illis doctus
    
  • in process of time: tempore progrediente
    
  • at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • at this moment: hoc tempore
    
  • in an instant: puncto temporis
    
  • at the important moment: momento temporis
    
  • just at the critical moment: in ipso discrimine (articulo) temporis
    
  • on the spur of the moment: temporis causa
    
  • to be there at a given time: ad tempus adesse
    
  • for a short time: ad exiguum tempus
    
  • for a short time: brevis or exigui temporis
    
  • after some time: spatio temporis intermisso
    
  • at present; for the moment: in praesentia, in praesens (tempus)
    
  • the spirit of the times, the fashion: saeculi consuetudo or ratio atque inclinatio temporis (temporum)
    
  • the succession of the four seasons: commutationes temporum quadripartitae
    
  • in spring, summer, autumn, winter time: verno, aestivo, auctumnali, hiberno tempore
    
  • the charms of spring: suavitas verni temporis
    
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    
  • the morning hours: tempora matutina
    
  • to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
    
  • the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • under such unfavourable circumstances: in tanta rerum (temporum) iniquitate
    
  • according to circumstances: pro re (nata), pro tempore
    
  • according to circumstances: pro tempore et pro re
    
  • not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere
    
  • to spend one's leisure hours on an object: otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re
    
  • to devote all one's leisure moments to study: omne (otiosum) tempus in litteris consumere
    
  • the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
    
  • universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
    
  • to consult history: memoriam annalium or temporum replicare
    
  • the mythical period, the heroic age: tempora heroica (N. D. 3. 21. 54)
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    
  • to observe the chronological order of events: temporum ordinem servare
    
  • to observe the chronological order of events: servare et notare tempora
    
  • to narrate events in the order of their occurrence: res temporum ordine servato narrare
    
  • to make a chronological mistake: temporibus errare (Phil. 2. 9. 23)
    
  • to calculate the date of an event: ad temporum rationem aliquid revocare
    
  • to be exact in calculating dates: diligentem esse in exquirendis temporibus
    
  • to speak extempore: subito, ex tempore (opp. ex praeparato) dicere
    

Latvian

Noun

tempus m

1. accusative plural form of temps