moderatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin *med-der.?

Latin *-osder.?

Latin moderō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin moderatio

From moderō + -tiō.

Noun

moderātiō f (genitive moderātiōnis); third declension

1. moderation
2. self-control
3. guidance
4. government, regulation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	moderātiō	moderātiōnēs
genitive	moderātiōnis	moderātiōnum
dative	moderātiōnī	moderātiōnibus
accusative	moderātiōnem	moderātiōnēs
ablative	moderātiōne	moderātiōnibus
vocative	moderātiō	moderātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: moderació
• English: moderation
• French: modération
• Galician: moderación
• Italian: moderazione
• Occitan: moderacion
• Portuguese: moderação
• Romanian: moderație
• Spanish: moderación

References

• “moderatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moderatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "moderatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “moderatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to show moderation in a matter: moderationem, modum adhibere in aliqua re