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 *temh₂- (“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

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