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