temo

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈte.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈte.mo]

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of témer

temo

1. (intransitive) to descend

Borrowed from French thème, Russian те́ма (téma), German Thema, English theme and Polish temat.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtemo]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Hyphenation: te‧mo

temo (accusative singular temon, plural temoj, accusative plural temojn)

1. topic that something is about, subject, theme
2. (music) theme

• ĉeftemo (“main theme”)

• temi pri (“to be on the subject of”)

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

Borrowed from Esperanto temo, English theme, French thème, German Thema, Italian tema, Russian те́ма (téma), Spanish tema. Ultimately from Latin thēma, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.mo/

temo (plural temi)

1. topic, subject, theme

Learned borrowing from Latin tēmō. Doublet of timone.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo

temo m (plural temi)

1. (poetic, obsolete) helm, rudder

   Synonym: timone

• temo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mo/, (traditional) /ˈte.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo, (traditional) -emo
• Hyphenation: tè‧mo, (traditional) té‧mo

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temere

• mote

Uncertain:

• Maybe from an Old Latin *teksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to cut, hew”). Cognates would then include Latin texō, Sanskrit तक्षति (takṣati), Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (tašaⁱti) Proto-Germanic *þahsuz, Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), τέκτων (téktōn), τέχνη (tékhnē).

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tenksmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tengʰ- (“to pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognates would then include Proto-Germanic *þinhslō (“wagon pole, thill”).[1]

• Maybe from an Old Latin *tensmō, from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch”), another extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”).[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.moː/, [ˈt̪eːmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.mo/, [ˈt̪ɛːmo]

tēmō m (genitive tēmōnis); third declension

1. pole
2. tongue (of a carriage or plow)
3. beam

Third-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance: (may instead reflect Late Latin tīmō)
  • Italian: timone
  • Sicilian: timuni
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: tamon
  • Lombard: temon (Como)
  • Romansch: zamun
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: temon
    • Galician: temón, tamón
    • Portuguese: temão
• Borrowings:
  • → Berber: atemmu
  • →⇒ Byzantine Greek: τεμώνιον (temṓnion)

Reflexes of the Late Latin variant tīmō:

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: timone, timoni, timona
• North Italian:
  • Venetian: timón (see there for further descendants)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: timó
  • French: timon
  • Occitan: timon
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: timón
  • Portuguese: timão
  • Galician: timón
  • Spanish: timón

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tēmo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: T–Ti, page 167

• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “temo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• temo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• temo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

temo

1. agriculture

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temer

From lema.

temo class 9 (uncountable)

1. agriculture

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemo/ [ˈt̪e.mo]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: te‧mo

temo

1. first-person singular present indicative of temar
2. first-person singular present indicative of temer

From Proto-North Halmahera *temo (“to say”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.mo]

temo

1. (intransitive) to crow
2. (transitive) to scold
3. (transitive) to slander

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh