† prime tempsn.

Forms: late Middle English prime temps, late Middle English prime tens, late Middle English pryme temps, late Middle English prymsauns (transmission error), late Middle English prym temps.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: prime adj., tense n.

Etymology: < prime adj. + tense n. (compare forms at that entry), after Middle French printemps, (rare) primtemps (French printemps ) springtime (c1200 in Old French as printans ; < classical Latin prīmus prime adj. + tempus time: see tempo n.¹).The sense ‘beginning, earliest period of something (e.g. life)’ is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1539). Compare Franco-Occitan printanz (c1150 in Girart de Roussillon).

Obsolete.

Springtime, spring; the beginning, the earliest time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring

LenteneOE

LentlOE

warea1300

verec1325

vera1382

vere-time1382

springing timea1387

springinga1398

springa1400

prime tempsa1425

the spring of the year1481

grass1485

springtime1495

prime time1503

sap-time?1523

spring tide1530

(the) spring of the leaf1538

prime1541

prime tide1549

voar1629

vernal season1644

vernal1654

outcome1672

Lent term1691

blossom-time1713

open water1759

rabi1783

budding-timea1807

ware-time1820

growing season1845

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3373 Daunger..is feers of his cheer, At prime temps, Love to manace.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4747 Love, it is..Pryme temps full of frostes whit, And May devoide of al delit.

c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 965 (MED) In the prymsauns [read prymtauns] of grene vere..floures spryngyn and bygynne.

a1475 (a1450) J. Shirley tr. Secreta Secret. (BL Add.) (1977) 245 Of the pryme temps and what it is.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. vii The byrdes..Ioyeful and gladde as the prymtemps came.

a1500 ( Nightingale (Corpus Oxf.) 11 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 2 (MED) Hyre peple..are in lustynesse Fresschly encoragyt, as galantus in prime-tens [rhyme presence].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	prime temps
释义	† prime tempsn. Forms: late Middle English prime temps, late Middle English prime tens, late Middle English pryme temps, late Middle English prymsauns (transmission error), late Middle English prym temps. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: prime adj., tense n. Etymology: < prime adj. + tense n. (compare forms at that entry), after Middle French printemps, (rare) primtemps (French printemps ) springtime (c1200 in Old French as printans ; < classical Latin prīmus prime adj. + tempus time: see tempo n.¹).The sense ‘beginning, earliest period of something (e.g. life)’ is apparently not paralleled in French until later (1539). Compare Franco-Occitan printanz (c1150 in Girart de Roussillon). Obsolete. Springtime, spring; the beginning, the earliest time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > spring LenteneOE LentlOE warea1300 verec1325 vera1382 vere-time1382 springing timea1387 springinga1398 springa1400 prime tempsa1425 the spring of the year1481 grass1485 springtime1495 prime time1503 sap-time?1523 spring tide1530 (the) spring of the leaf1538 prime1541 prime tide1549 voar1629 vernal season1644 vernal1654 outcome1672 Lent term1691 blossom-time1713 open water1759 rabi1783 budding-timea1807 ware-time1820 growing season1845 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 3373 Daunger..is feers of his cheer, At prime temps, Love to manace. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4747 Love, it is..Pryme temps full of frostes whit, And May devoide of al delit. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 965 (MED) In the prymsauns [read prymtauns] of grene vere..floures spryngyn and bygynne. a1475 (a1450) J. Shirley tr. Secreta Secret. (BL Add.) (1977) 245 Of the pryme temps and what it is. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iv. vii The byrdes..Ioyeful and gladde as the prymtemps came. a1500 ( Nightingale (Corpus Oxf.) 11 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 2 (MED) Hyre peple..are in lustynesse Fresschly encoragyt, as galantus in prime-tens [rhyme presence]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1425
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