See also: temeré

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin timēre. Compare Spanish temer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /teˈme.re/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ere
  • Hyphenation: te‧mé‧re

Verb

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temére (first-person singular present tèmo or (traditional) témo, first-person singular past historic temétti or (traditional) temètti, past participle temùto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to fear [transitive ‘something’; or with di (+ infinitive) ‘something happening’; or with che (+ subjunctive clause) ‘that something may happen’]
  2. (intransitive) to fear, to be concerned [with per ‘about someone’; or with di ‘about someone/something’] [auxiliary avere]

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *temezi (in darkness, blindly), a fossilised locative form of Proto-Indo-European *témHos (darkness), from *temH- (dark). Cognate with Sanskrit तमस् (támas), Persian تم (tam), Latin tenebrae (darkness).[1]

Compare this form – here simply adverbial – with the history of the Latin present active infinitive; see -ere.

Adverb

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temere (not comparable)

  1. by chance, by accident, at random
    Synonym: forte
  2. without design, intent, or purpose
  3. casually, fortuitously, rashly, heedlessly, thoughtlessly, inconsiderately, indiscreetly, idly
    Synonym: passim

Derived terms

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References

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  • temere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • temere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • temere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
    • without reflection; inconsiderately; rashly: nullo consilio, nulla ratione, temere
    • to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione)
    • to have no principles: omnia temere agere, nullo iudicio uti
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 609

Romanian

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Etymology

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From teme +‎ -re.

Noun

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temere f (plural temeri)

  1. fear
    Synonyms: teamă, spaimă, frică
  2. faintheartedness