temperament

English

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temperament

Wikipedia

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English temperament, borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/, /ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt/, /ˈtɛm.pə.mənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pɚ.ə.mənt/, /ˈtɛm.pɹə.mənt/, /ˈtɛm.pɚ.mənt/

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Noun

temperament (countable and uncountable, plural temperaments)

1. A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
   • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:

     President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress.

2. A tendency to become irritable or angry.
3. (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
4. (psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
5. (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
   • 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVIII., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 442-444:

     If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule

6. (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “temperament”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperāmentum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

temperament m (plural temperaments)

1. temperament

Further reading

• “temperament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “temperament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “temperament”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

temperament

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

From Latin temperāmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -amɛnt
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧ment

Noun

temperament m inan (related adjective temperamentní)

1. (psychology) temperament, disposition

   Synonyms: povaha, letora, nátura

2. liveliness, vivacity, temper

   Synonym: živost

Declension

Further reading

• temperament in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• temperament in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• temperament in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

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temperament

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧ment

Noun

temperament n (plural temperamenten, diminutive temperamentje n)

1. (psychology) the usual mood of a person, or typical manner of thinking, behaving, and acting; temperament, temper, mood

   Oorspronkelijk waren in de Griekse oudheid de temperamenten de naam voor vier persoonlijkheidstypen: het sanguïnische, flegmatische, cholerische en melancholische temperament.^Temperament

   Originally, in Greek antiquity, the temperaments were the names of the four personality types: the sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholy temperaments.

2. temperament: a tendency to become irritable or angry, temper
3. (music) temperament: a specific system of note pitches of a musical instrument

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian temperamento.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛm.pɛ.raˈmɛnt/

Noun

temperament m (plural temperamenti)

1. temperament, disposition

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin temperāmentum.

Noun

temperament n (definite singular temperamentet, indefinite plural temperament or temperamenter, definite plural temperamenta or temperamentene)

1. temperament
2. a temperamental nature

Derived terms

• temperamentsfull

References

• “temperament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “temperament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin temperāmentum.

Noun

temperament n (definite singular temperamentet, indefinite plural temperament, definite plural temperamenta)

1. temperament
2. a temperamental nature

Derived terms

• temperamentsfull

References

• “temperament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tempérament.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛm.pɛˈra.mɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -amɛnt
• Syllabification: tem‧pe‧ra‧ment

Noun

temperament m inan (diminutive temperamencik)

1. temperament, character

Declension

Further reading

• temperament in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• temperament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tempérament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Noun

temperament n (plural temperamente)

1. temperament

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Temperament, from Latin temperāmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /temperǎment/
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧ment

Noun

temperàment m (Cyrillic spelling темпера̀мент)

1. (psychology) temperament

Declension

References

• “temperament” in Hrvatski jezični portal