Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/tempos

This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch, string”), whence also templum (“shrine”). Originally the word meant "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion". Or from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”). Thus a section (of time). See also Latin temnō, tondeō, templum, Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō). Compare the etymology of English time.

  • Note that as indicated by the adverb temperī the noun would originally have declined like genus.

Noun

*tempos n

  1. stretch; or section, period (of time. See etymology)
  2. time

Declension

Declension of *tempos (consonant stem)
singular plural
nominative *tempos *tempezā
vocative *tempos *tempezā
accusative *tempos *tempezā
genitive *tempezes, tempezos *tempezom
dative *tempezei *tempezβos
ablative *tempezi? tempeze? *tempezβos
locative *tempezi? tempeze? *tempezβos

Descendants

  • Latin: tempus (see there for further descendants)
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