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Where does “temporality” come from?

Temporality comes from English temporal plus the suffix -ity, from French -ité, from Latin -alis and -itas applied to tempus meaning time.

temporality (English): The condition of being bounded in time

Definitions

  1. The condition of being bounded in time

Ancestry of “temporality”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtemporalOf or relating to time; Of limited time;...
2Middle Englishtemporal—
3Frenchtemporeltemporal
4Latintemporālis—
5Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
6Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
7Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

Words derived from “temporality”

  • cotemporality
Every word from Proto-Indo-European temp- →