temperateとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmpəɹət/
• ハイフネーション: temp‧pe‧rate

形容詞

temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)

1. Moderate; not excessive

   temperate heat

   a temperate climate.

   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)

     She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alfred Tennyson

     That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

2. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions

   temperate in eating and drinking.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Benjamin Franklin

     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 5661828, 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.

3. Proceeding from temperance.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

4. Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.

   temperate fishes

同意語

• (moderate): See also Thesaurus:moderate
• (moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites または passions): See also Thesaurus:temperate and Thesaurus:sober

派生語

• (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.

関連する語

• temper
• temperature

動詞

temperate (三人称単数 現在形 temperates, 現在分詞 temperating, 過去形および過去分詞形 temperated)

1. (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate

   Synonyms: soften, temper

   • 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess

     It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.

参照

• temperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• petameter, petametre

Latin

動詞

temperāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of temperō

参照

• 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