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tempero
Attested since 1812. Back-formation from temperar.
tempero m (plural temperos)
- equilibrium, balance
- Synonym: equilibrio
- (cooking) the correct point of seasoning or preparation
- temper, temperament; manner, personality
- Synonym: temperamento
1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:
Ela sábelle o tempero,
e él co-ela está contento:
canto falas todo he vento;- She knows his manner,
and he is happy with her:
all you say is just wind;
- She knows his manner,
- temperance
- Synonym: temperanza
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tempero”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tempero”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tempero”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
tempero
- IPA(key): /ˈtem.pe.ro/, (traditional) /ˈtɛm.pe.ro/[1]
- Rhymes: -empero, (traditional) -ɛmpero
- Hyphenation: tém‧pe‧ro, (traditional) tèm‧pe‧ro
tempero
- ^ tempero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
From Proto-Italic *tempezāō, related to tempus (“time”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtem.pe.roː/, [ˈt̪ɛmpɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtem.pe.ro/, [ˈt̪ɛmpero]
temperō (present infinitive temperāre, perfect active temperāvī, supine temperātum); first conjugation
- to divide duly, qualify, temper, moderate
- to combine, compound or blend properly
- to rule, regulate, govern, manage, arrange, order, control
- to refrain or abstain (from), forbear
- to be moderate or temperate; to show restraint
- Aragonese: templar
- Catalan: temprar, trempar, → temperar
- → English: temper
- French: tremper, → tempérer
- Friulian: temperâ
- Galician: temperar
- Italian: temperare, temprare
- Norwegian Bokmål: temperere
- Occitan: trempar
- Piedmontese: tempré
- Portuguese: temperar
- Romanian: astâmpăra
- Spanish: temperar, templar
- Venetian: tenparar
- “tempero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tempero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tempero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix mihi tempero quin lacrimem
- to give the state a constitution: rem publicam legibus et institutis temperare (Tusc. 1. 1. 2)
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix mihi tempero quin lacrimem
Deverbal from temperar, from Latin temperāre (“to mix, to temper”).
- Rhymes: -eɾu
- Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ro
tempero m (plural temperos)
- Rhymes: -ɛɾu
- Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ro
tempero
Probably deverbal from temperar. May correspond to a Vulgar Latin *temperium, from Latin temperiēs (compare Catalan temper, temperi, Occitan tempier, Old French tempier, Italian temperie).
tempero m (plural temperos)
- seasonableness
- Synonym: tempestividad
tempero
- “tempero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014