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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.

?

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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This word is part of lesson 34.