different between property vs temperament

English

Alternative forms

• propretie

Etymology

From Middle English propertee, properte, propirte, proprete, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French propreté, proprieté (“propriety, fitness, property”), from Latin proprietas (“a peculiarity, one's peculiar nature or quality, right or fact of possession, property”), from proprius (“special, particular, one's own”). Doublet of propriety.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??.p?.ti/, [?p??.p?.?i], enPR: pr??p?rt?
• Hyphenation: prop?erty

Noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

1. Something that is owned.
3. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.

   Synonyms: land, parcel

4. Real estate; the business of selling houses.

5. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
6. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
7. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
8. (computing) An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.

9. (usually in the plural, theater) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.

   Synonym: prop

10. (obsolete) Propriety; correctness.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Camden to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (something owned): See Thesaurus:property
• (attribute or abstract quality of an object): See Thesaurus:characteristic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

property (third-person singular simple present properties, present participle propertying, simple past and past participle propertied)

1. (obsolete) To invest with properties, or qualities.

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2. (obsolete) To make a property of; to appropriate.
   • 1595, Shakespeare, King John, V. ii. 79, l. 2359 - 2362

     Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:

     I am too high-born to be propertied,

     To be a secondary at control,

     Or useful serving-man and instrument,

     To any sovereign state throughout the world.

References

• property at OneLook Dictionary Search
• property in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• property in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mp???m?nt/, /?t?mp??m?nt/, /?t?mp??m?nt/

Noun

temperament (countable and uncountable, plural temperaments)

1. (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
2. (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
3. A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
4. A tendency to become irritable or angry.
5. (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
6. (psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “temperament”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tempérament, from Latin temperamentum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tem?pe?ra?ment

Noun

temperament n (plural temperamenten, diminutive temperamentje n)

1. (psychology) the usual mood of a person, or typical manner of thinking, behaving, and acting; temperament, temper, mood

   Oorspronkelijk waren in de Griekse oudheid de temperamenten de naam voor vier persoonlijkheidstypen: het sanguïnische, flegmatische, cholerische en melancholische temperament.^[1]

   Originally, in Greek antiquity, the temperaments were the names of the four personality types: the sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholy temperaments.

2. temperament: a tendency to become irritable or angry, temper
3. (music) temperament: a specific system of note pitches of a musical instrument

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin temperamentum

Noun

temperament n (definite singular temperamentet, indefinite plural temperament or temperamenter, definite plural temperamenta or temperamentene)

1. temperament
2. a temperamental nature

Derived terms

• temperamentsfull

References

• “temperament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “temperament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin temperamentum

Noun

temperament n (definite singular temperamentet, indefinite plural temperament, definite plural temperamenta)

1. temperament
2. a temperamental nature

Derived terms

• temperamentsfull

References

• “temperament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin temperamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m.p??ra.m?nt/

Noun

temperament m inan (diminutive temperamencik)

1. temperament, character

Declension

Further reading

• temperament in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• temperament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French tempérament, from Latin temperamentum.

Noun

temperament n (plural temperamente)

1. temperament

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Temperament, from Latin temperamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /temper?ment/
• Hyphenation: tem?pe?ra?ment

Noun

temperàment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????????)

1. (psychology) temperament

Declension

References

• “temperament” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal