tiempo

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

Inherited from Latin tempus

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

tiempo m (plural tiempos)

1. time

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

Inherited from Classical Latin tempus.

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

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]‎ (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 he stayed in the world.”)

   2. time, age, period
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎ (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]‎ (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, 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.”)

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

tiempo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling טיימפו)^[1]

1. (also physics) time
2. a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time

   Wa güeno pasó el tiempo y a todo esto la muĵer seguía tan sana como siempre, fresquita como una lechuga y ferte como un roble.

   So he passed the time and on top of that the woman stayed as healthy as always, fresh as lettuce and strong as oak.

   ^[2]

3. era; age; epoch; period (time)

   La inosensia de los críos de mi tiempo!

   How innocent babies were in my time!

   ^[3]

4. weather (the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)

Inherited from Latin tempus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key):
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key):

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, 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, 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.

     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 (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

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – 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

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

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

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.

• “tiempo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Spanish tiempo, from Latin tempus.

tiempo

1. time

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