tense

TENSE

(in Grammar) tempus -oris (grammatical)

tense (adj.): tentus: v. RIGID, STRETCHED.

tense (subs.): tempus, ŏris, n.: the past t., praeteritum (sc. t.), Quint. 1, 4, 29: the present, the future t., t. praesens, futurum, Prisc. 813, 814, P. The past t.s were distinguished as praeteritum imperfectum, praeteritum perfectum, and plusquamperfectum, id. ib.: to blunder in one's t.s, per tempora peccare, Quint. 1, 5, 47.