The corpus record — Latin

temperator

temperator · m

one who duly arranges

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

tempĕrātor — Lewis & Short

tempĕrātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who duly arranges, orders, or governs (very rare): moderator ille et quasi temperator hujus tripartitae varietatis, Cic. Or. 21, 70: voluptatis, i. e. who enjoys it in moderation, Sen. Vit. Beat. 14, 1.—Poet.: armorum (flumen), i. e. that rightly tempers them, Mart. 4, 55, 15.

In the wild

temperator Cicero, Orator 70
temperator Martial, Epigrammata 4.55.15
temperator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.3
temperatores Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.14.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. temperator (scan p. 704; entry #11696).

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.