tepidus

Latin

Etymology

From tepeō (“I am warm”) +‎ -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈte.pi.dus/, [ˈt̪ɛpɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.pi.dus/, [ˈt̪ɛːpid̪us]

Adjective

tepidus (feminine tepida, neuter tepidum); first/second-declension adjective

1. tepid, moderately warm
2. lukewarm, cool, cooled
3. faint, languid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tepidus	tepida	tepidum		tepidī	tepidae	tepida
Genitive	tepidī	tepidae	tepidī		tepidōrum	tepidārum	tepidōrum
Dative	tepidō		tepidō		tepidīs
Accusative	tepidum	tepidam	tepidum		tepidōs	tepidās	tepida
Ablative	tepidō	tepidā	tepidō		tepidīs
Vocative	tepide	tepida	tepidum		tepidī	tepidae	tepida

Derived terms

• tepidārius
• tepidē

Related terms

• tepeō
• tepor
• tepōrus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: tiepido, tepido
  • Tuscan: tiepito, chiepito, chiepido, chiebito
  • Sicilian: tèpitu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: tevad, tèved, tevd
  • Friulian: tivid
  • Ligurian: têvio, téio
  • Lombard: tevi, tevet, tevit, tibio, tibe

    Alpine: tivi

    Ossolano: tèvi, tévio

  • Piedmontese: tëbbi
  • Romagnol: tevd, teivd, tevde
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: tiedo
  • French: tiède
  • Norman: tchiède
  • Walloon: tiene
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: tebi
  • Occitan: tebés, tebi, tebe

    Gascon: tébet

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: tibiu
  • Galician: tibio
  • Portuguese: tíbio
  • Spanish: tibio
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: tébidu, tébiu, tépiu
• Borrowings:
  • → English: tepid
  • → French: tépide
  • → Galician: tépedo
  • → Interlingua: tepide
  • → Portuguese: tépido

References

• “tepidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tepidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tepidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tepidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.