temperi Latin · revision 36318

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tempus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''temperī''' (comparative temperius, no superlative)^(Wiktionary)

+ The form ''temporī'' is also found, in Cato and Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Plautus and Gellius also have ''tempere''.^(Georges 1913)

+ The comparative also appears as ''temporius'', in Nepos and Columella.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|tempus|t=time]], an old locative case form of the noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Georges and Lewis & Short treat it as an old ablative instead.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces the noun to [[itc-pro|*tempos-|t=stretch, measure]] and [[ine-pro|*temp-os|t=stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus, who uses it of coming or doing something at the appointed time, for instance of cooking a dinner in time in the ''Stichus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a word of comedy and of Cato,^(Georges 1913) who writes ''temporī'' of farm work finished in time.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The comparative ''temperius'', “earlier, sooner”, is found in Cicero, Ovid and Columella.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913) In the ''Aulularia'' Plautus puns on the other sense of the noun ''tempus'', the temple of the head.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the sense “at the right time”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses the form ''temporī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the comparative ''temperius'', “earlier”.^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses the comparative.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # At the right time, in good time, [[m|en|seasonably]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(comparative)'' Earlier, sooner, in better time.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tempestīvus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}