intemperate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *ən-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English temperate

English intemperate

From in- + temperate.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

intemperate (comparative more intemperate, superlative most intemperate)

1. Lacking moderation, temper or control.

   Synonyms: immoderate, unrestrained; see also Thesaurus:excessive

   intemperate language

   intemperate zeal

   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     Constantine engaged himself, by a solemn promise, to deliver Italy from the Goths; advanced as far as the banks of the Po; and after alarming, rather than assisting, his pusillanimous ally, hastily returned to the palace of Arles, to celebrate, with intemperate luxury, his vain and ostentatious triumph.

2. Indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol.

   Synonyms: self-indulgent, voluptuary; see also Thesaurus:hedonistic

Derived terms

• intemperateness

Related terms

• intemperance

Translations

lacking moderation, temper or control

• Bulgarian: неумерен (bg) (neumeren), невъздържан (bg) (nevǎzdǎržan)
• Georgian: არაზომიერი (arazomieri), ზომაგადასული (zomagadasuli), თავშეუკავებელი (tavšeuḳavebeli), უკიდურესი (uḳiduresi)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀκρατής (akratḗs)

• Hungarian: féktelen (hu), mértéktelen (hu), zabolátlan (hu), gátlástalan (hu)
• Latin: intemperans
• Portuguese: imoderado (pt)
• Russian: невоздержанный (ru) (nevozderžannyj)

indulging any appetite or passion to excess, especially the drinking of alcohol

• Georgian: უზომო (uzomo)
• Hungarian: részeges (hu), iszákos (hu)
• Portuguese: imoderado (pt)

Verb

intemperate (third-person singular simple present intemperates, present participle intemperating, simple past and past participle intemperated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put into disorder.

References

• “intemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• impenetrate

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *ən-

Latin in-

Latin temperātus

Latin intemperātus

Latin -ē

Latin intemperātē

From intemperātus + -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛm.pɛˈraː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.tem.peˈraː.te]

Adverb

intemperātē (not comparable)

1. intemperately

References

• “intemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intemperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers