English
tenseless
From tense + -less.
A compound of tense + -less
Proto-Indo-European *temp- ‘to stretch, string’
Proto-Italic *tempos ‘stretch’
Latin tempus ‘a time’
Old French tens
Middle English tens
English tense
Today it means
adj Lacking grammatical tense
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “tenseless”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / tenseless