Translation
temperature
Word origin
From Latin temperatura, a due mixing or proportion, from temperare ('to mix in proportion, to moderate'). The same verb gives English temper, temperate and tempera paint.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- temperatura
- English cognates
- temperature, temperate, temper
Examples
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The temperature fell during the night.
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What is the temperature today?
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The doctor took the child's temperature.
Free for any English speaker, and it works for both the weather and the body: is to be running a fever, the same shorthand English uses. Degrees are , and Esperanto sensibly stays metric, so needs no further explanation. The verb i exists but means to temper or moderate rather than anything thermometric.
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