denbora

Basque

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin tempora, nominative plural of tempus (“time”), during the Middle Ages.[1] The "weather" sense is semantic loan from French temps and Spanish tiempo.

Pronunciation
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Noun

denbora inan

  1. time
  2. era, times
  3. (Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin, Navarrese) weather
  4. (grammar) tense
    Synonym: aldi

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. “denbora” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further reading
  • "denbora" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “denbora” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
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