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temperate

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare (“moderate, forbear, combine properly”). See temper. Displaced native Old English ġemetegod.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛmpəɹət/
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  • Hyphenation: temp‧pe‧rate

Adjective

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temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)

  1. Moderate; not excessive.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:moderate
    temperate heat
    He has a temperate demeanour ― He is a calm person.
    1. Specifically, moderate in temperature.
      Synonyms: mellow, mild
      These trees can only grow in temperate climates.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
        Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
    2. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
      Synonyms: abstentious, continent; see also Thesaurus:abstemious, Thesaurus:temperate
      temperate in eating and drinking.
      • August 9, 1768, Benjamin Franklin, To John Alleyne, Esq. On Early Marriages
        Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
      • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
        I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule. […] I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.
  2. Proceeding from temperance.
  3. Dependent on life in a temperate climate.
    temperate fishes

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Verb

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temperate (third-person singular simple present temperates, present participle temperating, simple past and past participle temperated)

  1. (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate
    Synonyms: soften, temper
    • 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:
      It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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temperate

  1. inflection of temperare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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temperate f pl

  1. feminine plural of temperato

Latin

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Verb

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temperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of temperō

References

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  • “temperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “temperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Verb

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temperate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of temperar combined with te
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