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English word temperature comes from Proto-Indo-European *tempos, and later Latin tempus ((grammar) tense. Time, period, age.)

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*tempos (Proto-Indo-European)

stretch

tempus (Latin)

(grammar) tense. Time, period, age.

tempero (Latin)

I am moderate or temperate; I show restraint.. I combine, compound or blend properly.. I divide duly, qualify, temper, moderate.. I refrain or abstain (from), forbear.. I rule, regulate, govern, manage, arrange, order, control.

temperatura (Latin)

(physics) temperature. Due or proper measure, proportion, composition or quality.

temperature (English)

(now, _, rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.. (thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [...]

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