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tempo.

time (the progression from the present into the future)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtẽ.pu/Brazil/ˈtẽ.pu/Portugal
  1. time (the progression from the present into the future)

    masculine · uncountable
  2. time (quantity of availability of duration)

    masculine · uncountable
    Não há tempo para explicar, entra no carro!
  3. a duration of time, especially a long one

    masculine
    Ficara muito tempo na cadeia.
  4. weather (state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)

    masculine · uncountable
  5. time; era; period

    masculine
    O tempo dos dinossauros.
  6. season (part of a year when something particular happens)

    masculine
    É tempo de colheita.
  7. tense (forms of a verb which distinguish when an action occurs)

    masculine
  8. a subdivision of the duration of a match (such as halves in football, quarters in basketball)

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

intj/ˈtẽ.pu/Brazil/ˈtẽ.pu/Portugal
  1. time out (call for a time-out)

Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

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