Where does “passetemps” come from?

passetemps (Middle French) comes from Middle French temps, from Old French temps, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

passetemps (Middle French): pastime; hobby

Definitions

  1. pastime; hobby

Ancestry of “passetemps”, step by step

passetemps traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French temps

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchtempstime
2Old Frenchtempsweather
3Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
5Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

via Middle French passe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpasse—
2Latinpassusspread out; dried; step
3LatinpatiorI suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₁-to hate, hurt

Words derived from “passetemps”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European temp- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European tempos →Every word from Latin tempus →