tiempo

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• tiampo
• tems (Ribagorzan; presumably < Catalan temps)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjempo/
• Rhymes: -empo
• Syllabification: tiem‧po

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. time

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tiempo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
• “tiempo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjɛm.po/
• Rhymes: -ɛmpo
• Hyphenation: tièm‧po

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempi)

1. (Old Italian, Rome) Alternative form of tempo
   1. (uncountable) time (quantity of availability of duration)
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Tito Livio nella prima decada […] fao menzione de Alisantro de Macedonia: quanta iente abbe da pede e da cavallo, quanto tiempo durao soa signoria, quanto se stese per lo munno.

        Titus Livius, in the first Decade, […] mentioned Alexander of Macedonia: how many soldiers and knights he had; how long his reign lasted; how long he lived.

        (literally, “Titus Livius, in the first Decade, […] made mention of Alexander of Macedonia: how much people he had on foot and on horseback, how much time his lordship lasted, how much [time] he stayed in the world.”)

   2. time, age, period
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[2] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Tito Livio fece lo livro dello comenzamento de Roma fino allo tiempo de Ottaviano

        Titus Livius wrote the book about the beginnings of Rome, up to Octavian's time

   3. weather
      • 1350s, anonymous author, chapter XIV, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[3] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Puoi demannao que tiempo fussi. Folli respuosto e ditto che sopra li Englesi stava l’airo pulito como zaffino, sopra Franceschi stava lo tiempo atto a piovia.

        He then asked about the weather. The reply he received said that the air was as clear as a sapphire above the English, [and] the weather above the French was announcing rain.

        (literally, “Then he asked what weather was. He was answered and told that above the English was the air clean as sapphire, above French was the weather ready for rain.”)

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tempus.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈtjemb(ə)]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈtimbə]

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempe)

1. time
   • 1634, Giambattista Basile, “Jornata seconna - VII [Second day - 7]”, in Lo cunto de li cunti [The tale of tales] (overall work in Neapolitan); republished as Benedetto Croce, editor, Lo cunto de li cunti (Il Pentamerone): Testo conforme alla prima stampa del MDCXXXIV - VI‎^[4], Naples: V. Vecchi, 1891, page 233:

     Ma, fra sto tiempo, che jette e venette, passaje da chelle case Nardo Aniello, lo figlio de lo re, che jeva a caccia.

     But during this time, which came and went by, Nardo Aniello, the king's son, passed near those houses, going to a hunt.

   • 1872 [1310s], Domenico Jaccarino, “Canto vintiquattesemo [Twenty-fourth canto]”, in Il Dante popolare, o La Divina Commedia in dialetto napolitano‎^[5], 2^nd edition, Naples, adaptation of Inferno by Dante Alighieri, pages 107–108:

     Lo cafòne […] / […] torna, e de speranza fa cuccagna, / Vedenno che lo munno à n'autra faccia / Mpoco tiempo, sonanno n'autro tasto / A ppàscere le ppecore già caccia.

     [original: lo villanello […] / […] riede, e la speranza ringavagna, / veggendo ’l mondo aver cangiata faccia / in poco d’ora, e prende suo vincastro / e fuor le pecorelle a pascer caccia.]

     The peasant […] / […] comes back, and makes a fortune in hope, seeing how the world has a different face, in little time, playing a different key, he already takes out the sheep to graze.

   • 1935, Giulio Camber Barni, “II - Oslavia”, in La buffa‎^[6] (overall work in Italian), Trieste: Stabilimento tipografico mutilati, pages 37–38:

     «Spirante, songo state / tutto 'o tiempo appriesso a te, ¶ e quando hai detto ai soldati: / «Avanti, avanti ragazzi… / ancora trenta passi! / Spirante, me si sembrato / proprio 'nu capetano!»

     "Aspirer, I've been by your side the whole time; and when you told the soldiers: "Come on, come on, boys!… Thirty more steps!" aspirer, you really looked like a captain to me!"

2. tense
3. weather

Derived terms

• a tiempo a tiempo (“on time”)
• avè tiempo e frisco (“to have to wait a while”)
• nu tiempo ca nun escono manco 'e sierpe (“extremely bad weather”, literally “weather into which not even snakes would venture”)

 

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 363: “che tempo fa?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 32
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “tiémpo”, in Schedario Napoletano

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). Doublet of tempo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtjempo/ [ˈt̪jẽm.po]
• Rhymes: -empo
• Syllabification: tiem‧po

Noun

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. (also physics) time

   No tengo tiempo.

   I don't have time. / I haven't got time.

   • 1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Juan 7:6:

     Díceles entonces Jesús: Mi tiempo aun no ha venido; mas vuestro tiempo siempre está presto.

     Then Jesus says to them: My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready.

2. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time

   ¿Cuánto tiempo hace que vives aquí?

   How long have you been living here?

   Amiga, ha pasado demasiado tiempo.

   Friend, it's been too long.

   (literally, “Too much time has passed.”)

   Hace tiempo que yo no tomaba un buen trago.

   It's been a while since I've had a good drink.

3. (grammar) tense

   El verbo camina está en tiempo presente.

   The verb camina is in the present tense.

4. weather

   ¿Qué tiempo hace?

   What is the weather like? / How is the weather?

   Hace buen tiempo.

   The weather is fine.

Derived terms

• a buen fin no hay mal tiempo
• a largo tiempo
• a su debido tiempo
• a tiempo
• a tiempo completo
• a tiempos
• a un tiempo
• al correr del tiempo
• al mal tiempo, buena cara
• al mismo tiempo
• andando el tiempo
• antes de tiempo
• bomba de tiempo
• cada X tiempo
• cómo pasa el tiempo, cómo vuela el tiempo (“how time flies”)
• con el tiempo
• con tiempo
• contra el tiempo
• cuánto tiempo
• cuestión de tiempo
• dar tiempo
• dar tiempo al tiempo
• de tiempo
• de tiempo completo
• de tiempo en tiempo
• de un tiempo a esta parte
• del tiempo
• del tiempo de España
• del tiempo de Maricastaña
• dolores de tiempo
• dos tiempos
• ecuación del tiempo
• el tiempo dirá
• el tiempo vuela
• el tiempo y la marea ni se paran ni esperan
• en dos tiempos
• en mis tiempos (“in my day, back in my day”)
• en otro tiempo
• en tiempo
• en tiempo de Maricastaña
• en tiempo y forma
• en tiempos
• en tiempos de guerra cualquier agujero es trinchera
• ganar tiempo
• helecho de tiempo
• hombre del tiempo
• justo a tiempo
• la noche de los tiempos
• lapso de tiempo
• línea de tiempo
• máquina del tiempo
• medio tiempo
• motor de cuatro tiempos
• motor de dos tiempos
• no tener tiempo material
• perder el tiempo
• plenitud de los tiempos
• por los viejos tiempos
• por tiempo
• pronóstico del tiempo
• quien hace un cesto hará ciento, si le dan mimbres y tiempo
• sin tiempo
• tener un buen tiempo
• tiempo añadido
• tiempo atrás
• tiempo compartido
• tiempo de descuento
• tiempo de fortuna
• tiempo de más
• tiempo de pasión
• tiempo de perros
• tiempo de reverberación
• tiempo ha
• tiempo inmemorial
• tiempo libre
• tiempo medio
• tiempo muerto
• tiempo ocio
• tiempo ordinario (“ordinary time”) (Catholicism, Christianity)
• tiempo parcial
• Tiempo Universal Coordinado
• tiempo verbal
• todo el tiempo
• un tiempo
• unidad de tiempo
• viajar en el tiempo
• viaje en el tiempo

 

Related terms

• temporal
• temporario
• temprano

 

See also

• vez

 

Further reading

• “tiempo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Teojomulco Chatino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus.

Noun

tiempo

1. time

References

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (2016 October) “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics‎^[7], page [8]