Words that come from Latin “tempus”

400 words across 48 languages descend from Latin tempus — including temperature, contemporary, temporary, temporal, temper, tense, temporarily, template.

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English (185)

Latin (46)

Italian (43)

French (26)

Esperanto (15)

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