temperamentum

Borrowed from Latin temperamentum. ^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛmpɛrɒmɛntum]
• Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧men‧tum
• Rhymes: -um

temperamentum (plural temperamentumok)

1. temperament

• temperamentum in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From temperō (“to temper, apportion, regulate, be moderate”) +‎ -mentum (resultative noun suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛm.pɛ.raːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪em.pe.raˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

temperāmentum n (genitive temperāmentī); second declension

1. a mixture of things in proper proportion or measure
2. a moderation, proper proportion, balance, equilibrium
3. temperament, disposition
4. (Medieval Latin) rulership, control

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “temperamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "temperamentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• temperamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “temperamentum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• temperamentum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3044