temperate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare (“moderate, forbear, combine properly”). See temper. Displaced native Old English ġemetegod.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)
- Moderate; not excessive.
- temperate heat
- a temperate climate
- He has a temperate demeanour ― He is a calm person.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
- Specifically, moderate in temperature.
- These trees can only grow in temperate climates.
- Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
- 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.
- Proceeding from temperance.
- 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
- The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
- Dependent on life in a temperate climate.
- temperate fishes
Synonyms edit
- (moderate): See also Thesaurus:moderate
- (moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions): See also Thesaurus:temperate and Thesaurus:sober
Derived terms edit
- (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
- temperate rainforest
Related terms edit
Translations edit
moderate; not excessive heat, climate
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not marked with passion
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moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
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proceeding from temperance
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Verb edit
temperate (third-person singular simple present temperates, present participle temperating, simple past and past participle temperated)
- (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate
- 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:
- It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.
Translations edit
(obsolete) to render temperate
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References edit
- “temperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
temperate
- inflection of temperare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
temperate f pl
Latin edit
Verb edit
temperāte
References edit
- “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
Spanish edit
Verb edit
temperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of temperar combined with te