tense
English
/tɛns/
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (linguistics) An form of a verb that indicates tense.
- (linguistics) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tens derived from Latin tempus (time, age, in the plural temples, period, season).
Origin
Latin
tempus
Gloss
time, age, in the plural temples, period, season
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
季, 候
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hypertense English
- overtense English
- tensal English
- tense vowel English
- tenseless English
- tenselessly English
- tenselessness English
- tensely English
- tensen English
- tenseness English
- tensening English
- tensible English
- tensification English
- untense English
- vowel English
- extemporalis Latin
- intempestus Latin
- temporalis Latin
- temporaneus Latin
- temporarius Latin
- temporālis Latin
- tempus Latin
- tempia Italian
- tempo Italian
- contretemps French
- longtemps French
- mi-temps French
- passe-temps French
- temps French
- temporizador Spanish, Castilian
- tiempo Spanish, Castilian
- *tempos Proto-Indo-European
- tempus Norwegian Nynorsk
- tans Old French
- temps Old French
- tens Old French
- tempo Esperanto
- timp Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tempo Old Portuguese
- taimp Romansh
- tains Romansh
- temp Romansh
- temps Romansh
- tiempu Asturian
- timp Friulian
- temps Old Occitan
- tems Old Occitan
- tempu Sicilian
- tenpo Venetian
- tiamp Dalmatian
- tan Haitian, Haitian Creole
- tins Walloon
- tamps Bourguignon
- tëmp Ladin
- tempus Sardinian
- tiempo Neapolitan
- tenpo Istriot
- tans Picard