temperantia

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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.

	singular	plural
nominative	temperantia	temperantiae
genitive	temperantiae	temperantiārum
dative	temperantiae	temperantiīs
accusative	temperantiam	temperantiās
ablative	temperantiā	temperantiīs
vocative	temperantia	temperantiae

Descendants

Inherited:
- Catalan: temprança
- Italian: tempranza
- Spanish: templanza
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: temperància
- → English: temperance
- → French: tempérance
- → Italian: temperanza
- → Portuguese: temperança
- → Romanian: temperanță
- → Spanish: temperancia

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
temperantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to behave with moderation: temperantia uti

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