Proto-Italic

*tempos

‘stretch’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *tempos.

30 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *tempos, most familiar first.

• temperature ← temperātūra ← tempero
• contemporary ← contemporārius ← tempus
• temporary ← temporarius ← tempora ← tempus
• temple ← *temp(u)la ← tempora ← tempus
• tense ← tens ← tens ← tempus
• temper ← temperen ← ġetemprian ← temperō ← tempus
• tempo ← tempus
• template ← templet ← temple ← tempus
• temporal ← temporel ← tempus
• temperament ← temperāmentum ← temperō ← *tempos ← tempus
• temperate ← temperātus ← temperō
• temperance ← temperantia ← temperans ← temperō

More words from *tempos

• tamper
• contemporaneous
• tempura
• tempera
• matin
• contemporaneously
• contretemps
• temporalis
• temporale
• attemper
• contemper
• contemporal
• extemporal
• extemporanea
• obtemperate
• tempestivity
• temporaneous
• temporicide

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *tempos