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“temps” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“temps” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
“temps”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025

Franc-Comtois

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatintempus.

Noun

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temps m (pluraltemps)

References

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Oberli, Marie-Louis (2006)Patois - Français : Le Djâsaie De Tchie Nos, Glossaire Patois des Franches-Montagnes‎^[1] (in French)

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatintempus.

Noun

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temps m (pluraltemps)(ORB, broad)

time
season
Synonym:sêson

Derived terms

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chôd-temps

References

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temps in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
temps in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

Further information

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AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 363: “che tempo fa?” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF:Atlas Linguistique de la France^[2] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1291: “un bon temps” – onlig-tdcge.imag.fr
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tĕmpus”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes13: T–Ti,page185

French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchtemps and its variants, fromLatintempus.

Pronunciation

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(France)IPA^(key): /tɑ̃/
- Audio(Paris): (file)
- Audio(Paris): (file)
(Quebec)IPA^(key): /tã/
- Audio(Quebec): (file)
Homophones:tan,tans,tant,taon,t’en

Noun

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temps m (pluraltemps)

(uncountable)time(in general)
Synonym:le temps qui passe
je n’ai pas letemps de faire ça ―I haven't got (the)time to do that
il faut encore dutemps ―I need moretime
Il esttemps de commencer. ―it'stime to commence
(uncountable)weather
Synonym:le temps qu’il fait
letemps n’est pas bon ici ―theweather is no good here
queltemps fait-il ? ―how's theweather?
(countable, grammar)tense
untemps composé ―a compoundtense
untemps simple ―a simpletense
changez letemps du verbe ―change thetense of the verb

Usage notes

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To talk about the current weather, it is standard in French to use the third-person singular pronounil.

il fait beau ―it's nice weather
il fait mauvais ―it's bad weather
il faisait froid ―it was cold
j’espère qu’il ne pleuvra pas demain ―I hope it won't rain tomorrow
il neige ―it's snowing
il vente / ça souffle ―the wind is blowing

Derived terms

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Related terms

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Latvian

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Etymology

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FromFrenchtemps orItaliantempo, both fromLatintempus.

Noun

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temps m (1st declension)

Declension

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Declension oftemps (1st declension)
	singular	plural
nominative	temps	tempi
genitive	tempa	tempu
dative	tempam	tempiem
accusative	tempu	tempus
instrumental	tempu	tempiem
locative	tempā	tempos
vocative	temp	tempi

Verb

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temps

third-personsingular/pluralfuture indicative oftempt

Middle English

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Noun

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temps

Alternative form oftemse

Middle French

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchtemps,tens,tans, fromLatintempus.

Noun

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temps m (pluraltemps)

time

Derived terms

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passetemps

Descendants

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French:temps

Norman

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchtemps, fromLatintempus.

Noun

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temps m (pluraltemps)

(Jersey)weather
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, inGuernsey Folk Lore‎^[3], page534:
  Si le soleil est rouage au sèr, / Ch'est pour biautemps aver, / S'il est rouage au matin, / Ch'est la mare au chemin.
  If the sun sets red, it is a sign of fineweather, but when he rises red, you may expect pools of water on the road.
(Jersey)time
(Jersey, grammar)tense