• IPA: /ˈtɛmpəɹət/

temperate

1. Moderate; not excessive

   temperate heat

   a temperate climate.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

     Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1013215631 ↗:

     That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

2. Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions

   temperate in eating and drinking.

   • Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828 ↗, pages 14–15 ↗:

     I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule. […] I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.

3. Proceeding from temperance.
   • 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:

     The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

4. Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.

   temperate fishes

• (moderate) See also Thesaurus:moderate
• (moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions) See also Thesaurus:temperate and Thesaurus:sober

• temper
• temperature

• French: tempéré
• German: gemäßigt
• Italian: temperato
• Portuguese: temperado, ameno
• Russian: уме́ренный
• Spanish: templado

• German: zurückhaltend
• Portuguese: temperado
• Russian: уме́ренный

• Portuguese: temperado, comedido
• Russian: уме́ренный

• Russian: уме́ренный

temperate (temperates, present participle temperating; past and past participle temperated)

1. (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate

   Synonyms: soften, temper

• Portuguese: amenizar