temperantia

Latin

Etymology

From temperans.

Noun

temperantia f (genitive temperantiae); first declension

  1. moderation, sobriety, temperance, self control, sophrosyne
    • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 12.41:
      “Nec enim libīdine dominante temperantiae locum esse, neque omnīnō in voluptātis rēgnō virtūtem posse cōnsistere.”
      “For with lust ruling [one’s mind and body] there is no place for self-control, and neither can virtue take a stand in any dominium of sensual pleasure.”
      (Cicero’s character Cato the Elder quotes the Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative temperantia temperantiae
genitive temperantiae temperantiārum
dative temperantiae temperantiīs
accusative temperantiam temperantiās
ablative temperantiā temperantiīs
vocative temperantia temperantiae

Descendants

References

  • “temperantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “temperantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “temperantia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to behave with moderation: temperantia uti
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