The story
- Latin · borrowed fromtempus fugit
- English todaytempus fugit
Borrowed from Latin tempus fugit, from the third book of the Georgics by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BCE): sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus (“meanwhile, the irreplaceable time escapes”, literally “but it flees meanwhile: irretrievable time flees”).
Words from the same roots
Latintempus fugit all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.