The corpus record — Latin

temperamentum

temperamentum · n

a mixing in due proportion

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Where it lives

De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Letters 6 · 0.93/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tempĕrāmentum — Lewis & Short

tempĕrāmentum, i, n.id.,

I a mixing in due proportion, a proper measure, disposition, or constitution; a measure, mean, moderation; temperament, temperature (mostly post-Aug.; cf. on the other hand, temperatio): inventum est temperamentum, quo tenuiores cum principibus aequari se putarunt, * Cic. Leg. 3, 10, 24; cf.: tanto temperamento inter plebem senatumque egit, ut, etc., Just. 2, 7, 5; 44, 4, 3: egregium principatus temperamentum, si demptis utriusque vitiis solae virtutes miscerentur, Tac. H. 2, 5: fortitudinis, id. ib. 1, 83: senatus Caesar orationem habuit meditato temperamento, with studied moderation, strictness, id. A. 3, 12: quod temperamentum omnes in illo subito pietatis calore servavimus, Plin. Pan. 3, 1: opus est inter has tam diversas inaequalitates magno temperamento, Col. 3, 12, 3 sq. eruca jungitur lactucae fere in cibis, ut nimio frigori par fervor immixtus temperamentum aequet, Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 155 eadem est materia, sed distat temperamento, proportion, combination, id. 9, 36, 61, § 130, 12, 25, 54, § 115 caeli, temperateness, Just. 2, 1, 10: linistis absque temperamento, without having tempered the mortar, Vulg. Ezech. 13, 14; 22, 28.

In the wild

temperamento Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.8.p3
temperamento Tacitus, Annales 11.p4
temperamento Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.14.p4
temperamentum Pliny the Younger, Letters 1.7.3
temperamento Tertullian, De Anima 25
temperamentum Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam 11.16.1

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.