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Latin
Etymology
From temperans.
Noun
temperantia f (genitive temperantiae); first declension
- moderation, sobriety, temperance, self control, sophrosyne
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “temperantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “temperantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “temperantia”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to behave with moderation: temperantia uti