# temperate
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛmpəɹət/
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* Hyphenation: temp‧pe‧rate

### Adjective

temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)
* Moderate; not excessive.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:moderate
    temperate heat
    He has a temperate demeanour ― He is a calm person.
** 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)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
** 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."
** 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.
** 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.
* 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

#### Derived terms

* (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

* temper
* temperature

#### Translations

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### Verb

temperate (third-person singular simple present temperates, present participle temperating, simple past and past participle temperated)
* (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate
    Synonyms: soften, temper
** 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.

#### Translations
### References

* “temperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* petameter, petametre

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

temperate
* inflection of temperare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

temperate f pl
* feminine plural of temperato

## Latin
### Verb

temperāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of temperō

### References

* “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
### Verb

temperate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of temperar combined with te