Times
/taɪmz/noun
Plural of time; also used for newspapers and other named entities.
Did you know?English time comes from an old Germanic root meaning to divide or apportion, which is why the word’s oldest relatives are tied to measuring and splitting, not to clocks.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dəi-
“to divide, cut apart”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*tīmô
“a fixed time, period, or season”
Old English
OE
tīma
“time, period, season, occasion”
Middle English
ME
time
“time, occasion, season”
Modern English
English
times
“plural of time; periods or occasions”