Today’s Spanish word of the day is “tiempo”.
It’s a masculine noun that can mean “time” or “weather”.
It might seem strange that “tiempo” can mean both “time” and “weather”, but English originally linked the concepts as well in the word “tide” (as in “Yuletide”), which used to refer to both time and weather. For most of human history, people didn’t have clocks or watches, and the concept of time would have been closely linked to the seasons and the weather rather than the exact time of day, for example.
The word “tiempo” comes from Latin tempus, meaning “time” or “season”. This is also the root of several English words including “temporary”, “tempo” and “tempest”.
Example sentences
Ella ha estado estudiando durante mucho tiempo.
She has been studying for a long time.
El tiempo es algo que no se puede recuperar una vez que se ha perdido.
Time is something that can’t be recovered once it has been lost.
¡Qué mal tiempo hace hoy! Parece que va a llover.
What awful weather today! It looks like it’s going to rain.
Me duele la cabeza cuando me pregunto si el tiempo es infinito.
My head hurts when I wonder if time is infinite.
El tiempo hoy está nublado.
The weather is cloudy today.
