temo

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

temo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ても

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 Latin) 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tēmō	tēmōnēs
Genitive	tēmōnis	tēmōnum
Dative	tēmōnī	tēmōnibus
Accusative	tēmōnem	tēmōnēs
Ablative	tēmōne	tēmōnibus
Vocative	tēmō	tēmōnēs

• 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:
  • Venetan: timon (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, 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

Conjugation of temo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totemo	fotemo	mitemo
2nd	notemo	nitemo
3rd	Masculine	otemo	itemo, yotemo†
Feminine	motemo
Neuter	itemo
† - archaic

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