temo

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of témer

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

temo

1. (intransitive) to descend

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French thème, Russian те́ма (téma), German Thema, English theme and Polish temat.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -emo
• Hyphenation: te‧mo

Noun

temo (accusative singular temon, plural temoj, accusative plural temojn)

1. topic that something is about, subject, theme
2. (music) theme

Derived terms

• ĉeftemo (“main theme”)

Related terms

• temi pri (“to be on the subject of”)

Galician

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto temo, English theme, French thème, German Thema, Italian tema, Russian те́ма (téma), Spanish tema. Ultimately from Latin thēma, from Ancient Greek .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.mo/

Noun

temo (plural temi)

1. topic, subject, theme

Italian

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin tēmō. Doublet of timone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo

Noun

temo m (plural temi)

1. (poetic, obsolete) helm, rudder

   Synonym: timone

Further reading

• temo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/, (traditional) /ˈte.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo, (traditional) -emo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo, (traditional) té‧mo

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temere

Anagrams

• mote

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain:

• Maybe from an Old Latin *teksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”). Cognates would then include Latin texō, Sanskrit तक्षति (takṣati), Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (tašaⁱti) Proto-Germanic *þahsuz, Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), τέκτων (téktōn), τέχνη (tékhnē).

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tenksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ- (“to pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognates would then include Proto-Germanic *þinhslō (“wagon pole, thill”).

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tensmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch”), another extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.moː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.mo/,

Noun

tēmō m (genitive tēmōnis); third declension

1. pole
2. tongue (of a carriage or plow)
3. beam

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italo-Romance: (may instead reflect Late Latin tīmō)
  • Italian: timone
  • Sicilian: timuni
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: tamon
  • Lombard: temon (Como)
  • Romansch: zamun
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: temon
    • Galician: temón, tamón
    • Portuguese: temão
• Borrowings:
  • → Berber: atemmu
  • →⇒ Byzantine Greek: τεμώνιον (temṓnion)

Reflexes of the Late Latin variant tīmō:

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: timone, timoni, timona
• North Italian:
  • Venetian: timón (see there for further descendants)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: timó
  • French: timon
  • Occitan: timon
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: timón
  • Portuguese: timão
  • Galician: timón
  • Spanish: timón

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tēmo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: T–Ti, page 167

Further reading

• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• temo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• temo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Northern Sotho

Noun

temo

1. agriculture

Portuguese

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Sotho

Etymology

From lema.

Noun

temo class 9 (uncountable)

1. agriculture

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemo/
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: te‧mo

Verb

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temar
2. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Ternate

Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *temo (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

temo

1. (intransitive) to crow
2. (transitive) to scold
3. (transitive) to slander

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh