remote past tense
Linguistic term for a tense that expresses an action completed in the distant past, such as Italian passato remoto. Compare with 過去 (sense 3), which refers to the simple past tense.
See also: 過去 (かこ)
The Italian remote past tense is used to express events in the distant past.
Compound of 遠 (en, 'distant') and 過去 (kako, 'past'). The term is a direct calque from Western linguistic terminology.