contemperare

Italian

Etymology

From Latin contemperāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kon.tem.peˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: con‧tem‧pe‧rà‧re

Verb

contemperàre (first-person singular present contémpero or (traditional) contèmpero[1], first-person singular past historic contemperài, past participle contemperàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to adapt or make fit
  2. (transitive) to moderate or mitigate

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ contempero in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

contemperāre

  1. inflection of contemperō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative