tepor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tepor, teporem.

Noun

tepor (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Lukewarmness, tepidness, moderate warmth.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tep-‎ (0 c, 8 e)

Anagrams

• -trope, Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, toper, trope

Latin

Etymology

From tepeō +‎ -or. Proto-Indo-European *tépos (“heat”) is also possible, though the problem is the shift to masculine and the change to an R-stem.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈte.por/, [ˈt̪ɛpɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.por/, [ˈt̪ɛːpor]

Noun

tepor m (genitive tepōris); third declension

1. gentle warmth; tepidity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tepor	tepōrēs
Genitive	tepōris	tepōrum
Dative	tepōrī	tepōribus
Accusative	tepōrem	tepōrēs
Ablative	tepōre	tepōribus
Vocative	tepor	tepōrēs

Descendants

• English: tepor
• Italian: tepore

References

• “tepor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tepor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tepor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.