Tempus

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Tempus is a Latin word meaning time and a Finnish, Swedish and German word meaning grammatical tense. It may also refer to:

• Tempus Publishing, a UK publishing company
• Tempus Sport, a British motorsport team
• TEMPUS (Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies), a European Union program
• Tempus (novel), a novel published originally by Baen Books in 1987, reissued by Paradise Publishing in 2011
• Tempus (music)
• Tempus (poem), a poem by Giulio Angioni, Cuec 2008 (audiobook 2012)

Characters

• Tempus (DC Comics), a Superman villain, first appearing in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen # 98 (December 1966), but made famous in various episodes of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• Tempus (Forgotten Realms), a deity in Dungeons & Dragons' Forgotten Realms fictional universe
• Tempus, a demon that could manipulate time in the television series Charmed, portrayed by David Carradine
• Tempus, the fictional commander of the Sacred Band of Stepsons in the Thieves World shared-universe series, the Sacred Band of Stepsons seven-volume saga, and the book-length novelization of short stories titled Tempus
• Tempus, a character that featured in the "Superhero Tryouts" sketch on BBC's television program The Wrong Door
• Tempus, a Parrot-Ox in Edward Einhorn's novel Paradox in Oz
• Tempus (comics), refers to two Marvel characters, one a villain and a second an X-man