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Latin
Etymology
From abs- + the root of tēmētum (“any intoxicating drink”) + -ius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
abstēmius (feminine abstēmia, neuter abstēmium); first/second-declension adjective
- abstaining from wine, abstemious; sober
- temperate, abstinent, moderate
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abstemius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abstemius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- 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