Noun: tempo
| Singular | tempo |
| Plural | tempos; tempi |
Sample Sentences
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10 calls per hour isn't a bad start, but we'll need to up the tempo if we want to reach our target of selling insurance policies.
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the tempo effect in fertility measurements
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The conductor asked the orchestra to increase the tempo.
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The song has a slow tempo that makes it relaxing.
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The dancer kept pace with the shifting tempo of the music.
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From the back door of a tempo with his too-strong hands he lifted a woman wearing red clothes, like a precious jewel wrapped in gold embroidered cloth. [2025, Banu Mushtaq, “Be a Woman Once, Oh Lord!”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 208:]
Nouns inflected like tempo
sbirro,
vetturino,
capocollo,
clavicembalo,
decrescendo,
scherzando,
bambino,
concerto,
descrescendo,
zufolo,
stornello,
cavaletto,
inamorato,
zuffolo,
secondo,
rifacimento,
paesano,
pianissimo,
palazzo,
pandoro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Italian tempo, from Latin tempus (“time”). Doublet of tense.
2. (truck or cargo van): A genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH. See: Italian Nouns '
tempo', Latin Nouns '
tempus'.