temperantia

Latin

Etymology

From temperans.

Noun

temperantia f (genitive temperantiae); first declension

1. 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