Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/tempos

Etymology
From, whence also. Originally the word meant "what is stretched, stretching" → "stretch (of time)" → "time, occasion". Or from. Thus a section (of time). See also 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬. Compare the etymology of English.
 * Note that as indicated by the the adverb the noun would originally have declined like genus.

Noun

 * 1) stretch; or section, period (of time. See etymology)
 * 2) time