ad tempus

Latin edit

ad tempus (not comparable)

on time, in time, punctually
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) temporarily
- c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum 1 10:
  Aedilis praeter Comitium ac Forum basilicasque etiam Capitolium ornavit porticibus ad tempus extructis […]
  As aedile, besides the Comitium and the Forum and its basilicas, Caesar decorated the Capitol too, temporarily erecting colonnades […]
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) for the current time, for a while, at present
- 44 BCE, Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia 15.53:
  Coluntur tamen simulatione dumtaxat ad tempus.
  But they are only honoured by pretense for a while.

“tempus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
tempus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
“ad ~”, under “tempus” on page 1916/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)