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temperament
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)
- (obsolete) A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
- (obsolete) Any state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
- A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- A tendency to become irritable or angry.
- (music) The altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
- (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)
- (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.
- Oorspronkelijk waren in de Griekse oudheid de temperamenten de naam voor vier persoonlijkheidstypen: het sanguïnische, flegmatische, cholerische en melancholische temperament.[1]
- temperament: a tendency to become irritable or angry, temper
- (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)
- temperament
- 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)
- temperament
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 ????????????)
- (psychology) temperament
Declension
References
- “temperament” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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irritate
English
Etymology
From Latin irr?t?tus, past participle of irr?t? (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????te?t/
Verb
irritate (third-person singular simple present irritates, present participle irritating, simple past and past participle irritated)
- (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, law) To render null and void.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)
Synonyms
- provoke
- rile
Antonyms
- placate
- please
- soothe
Related terms
Translations
See also
- exasperate
- peeve
- disturb
Italian
Adjective
irritate
- feminine plural of irritato
Verb
irritate
- second-person plural present of irritare
- second-person plural imperative of irritare
- feminine plural past participle of irritare
Anagrams
- arteriti, atterrii, irretita, ritirate, tiritera, triterai
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ir.ri??ta?.te/, [?r?i??t?ä?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ir.ri?ta.te/, [ir?i?t???t??]
Verb
irr?t?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of irr?t?
References
- irritate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- irritate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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