different between tempt vs temps

English

Etymology

From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tenere (“to hold”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /t?mpt/, /t?mt/
• Rhymes: -?mpt, -?mt

Verb

tempt (third-person singular simple present tempts, present participle tempting, simple past and past participle tempted)

1. (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

2. (transitive) To attract; to allure.

3. (transitive) To provoke something; to court.

Synonyms

• (provoke someone to do wrong): entice, fand, lure, pander, tease
• (attract; allure): beguile, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure
• (provoke something): foment, urge; see also Thesaurus:incite

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• tempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tempt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• tempt at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latvian

Verb

tempt (tr., 1st conj., pres. tempju, temp, tempj, past tempu)

1. to gulp
2. to swill
3. to quaff

Conjugation

English

Noun

temps

1. plural of temp

Verb

temps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temp

Anagrams

• EMT-Ps, empts

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan temps, tems, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). Doublet of tempo.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tems/

Noun

temps m (plural temps)

1. time
2. weather

Synonyms

• (weather): oratge

Derived terms

Related terms

• temporada
• temporal

Further reading

• “temps” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Old French temps and its variants, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /t??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /tã/
• Homophones: tan, tans, tant, taon

Noun

temps m (plural temps)

1. (uncountable) time (in general)

2. (uncountable) weather

3. (countable, grammar) tense

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• passe-temps
• temporel
• temporaire

See also

• heure
• minute
• Category:fr:Tenses

Further reading

• “temps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

temps m (1st declension)

1. speed
2. pace
3. rate
4. time (music)

Declension

Verb

temps

1. 3rd person singular future indicative form of tempt
2. 3rd person plural future indicative form of tempt

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French temps, tens, tans, from Latin tempus.

Noun

temps m (plural temps)

1. time

Derived terms

• passetemps

Descendants

• French: temps

Norman

Etymology

From Old French temps, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

temps m (plural temps)

1. (Jersey) weather
2. (Jersey) time
3. (Jersey, grammar) tense

Old French

Alternative forms

• tans, tens

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

temps m (oblique plural temps, nominative singular temps, nominative plural temps)

1. weather

Descendants

• Bourguignon: tamps
• Middle French: temps
  • French: temps
• Norman: temps
• Walloon: tins

Old Occitan

Noun

temps m (oblique plural temps, nominative singular temps, nominative plural temps)

1. Alternative form of tems

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) temp
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) taimp
• (Sutsilvan) tains

Etymology

From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

temps m

1. (Sursilvan) time

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ura
• (Surmiran) oura