Word: tempered
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: tem
pered
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of temper; make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
Morphemes:
Affix: temper
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To moderate or control.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: temperō
Language: la
Decoded: tempero
Meaning: I divide or proportion duly, I moderate, I regulate; intransitive senses I am moderate, I am temperate
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.