tempus – Latin noun declension

Noun: tempus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	tempus
Plural	tempora

Genitive

Singular	temporis
Plural	temporum

Dative

Singular	temporī
Plural	temporibus

Accusative

Singular	tempus
Plural	tempora

Ablative

Singular	tempore
Plural	temporibus

Vocative

Singular	tempus
Plural	tempora

Sample Sentences

ad/in tempus (temporarily; for a time)
tempus diurnum (daytime)
sed fvgit intereā fvgit inreparābile tempvs (But it flees, meanwhile, it flees... irretrievable time.) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon III.284]
Cur anni tempora morbos adportant? (Why do the seasons of the year bring maladies?) [c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.220]
per īdem tempus annōrum novem, ab ūndēvīcēnsimō annō aetātis meae ūsque ad duodētrīcēnsimum, sēdūcēbāmur et sēdūcēbāmus (During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray.) [397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessiones 4]
Omnia, Lūcīlī, aliēna sunt; tempus tantum nostrum est [...]. (All things, Lucilius, are otherwise; time alone is ours.) [c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.3]
in tempore (at the appropriate time; in due season)
ad tempus venīre (to come at the right time)
ante tempus (too soon)
prō tempore (according to the circumstances)
Ō tempora, ō mōrēs! Senātus haec intellegit, cōnsul videt; hic tamen vīvit. Vīvit? (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!) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.2]

Nouns inflected like tempus

alticorpus, decus, fēnus, nemus, tegus, tenus, lītus, dēdecus, faenus, foenus, frīgus, littus, facinus, corpus, tergus, tempus, pectus, pignus, stercus,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Italic *tempos; thence, two ultimate origins have been proposed:
2. * 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".
3. * 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.
4. 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 þunwange (“temple of the head”), Middle High German tinne, tinge (“forehead, temples”).
5. As seen from the adverb temperī, the noun would originally have declined like genus. See: Latin Nouns 'temnō', Old English Nouns 'þunwange'.

Verbs referencing "tempus"

English Nouns tempo, Danish Nouns tempo, Dutch Nouns tempo, Galician Nouns tempo, Italian Nouns tempo, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns tempo, Polish Nouns tempo, Portuguese Nouns tempo, Swedish Nouns tempo, English Nouns tense, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tempus, Catalan Nouns temps, French Nouns temps, Latvian Nouns temps, Middle English Nouns tens, German Nouns Tempus, Old Spanish Nouns tiempo, Spanish Nouns tiempo, Romanian Nouns timp, Catalan Nouns temporada, Asturian Nouns tiempu, Ukrainian Nouns темп, Spanish Nouns temporizador, Asturian Nouns tenllera, Galician Nouns tempas, Catalan Nouns temporer.