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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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nature
English
Alternative forms
- natuer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English nature, natur, from Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality”), future participle from perfect passive participle (g)natus (“born”), from deponent verb (g)nasci (“to be born, originate”) + future participle suffix -urus. Displaced native Middle English cunde, icunde (“nature, property, type, genus, character”) (from Old English ?ecynd), Middle English lund (“nature, disposition”) (from Old Norse lund), Middle English burthe (“nature, birth, nation”) (from Old English ?ebyrd and Old Norse *byrðr). More at kind.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ne?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ne?t??/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?n??t??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?næ??t??/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?næet??/, [?næet??~?n?et??]
- Rhymes: -e?t??(?)
- Hyphenation: na?ture
Noun
nature (countable and uncountable, plural natures)
- (uncountable) The natural world; that which consists of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production, and design. (Compare ecosystem.)
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
- Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
- The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:
- Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
- 1869, Horatio Alger, Jr., Mark the Match Boy, chapter 16:
- Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond, Ch.1:
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
- Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
- Kind, sort; character; quality.
- A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- (obsolete) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
- (obsolete) Natural affection or reverence.
Synonyms
- (innate characteristics of a thing): quintessence, whatness; See also Thesaurus:essence
Derived terms
Pages starting with “nature”.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
nature (third-person singular simple present natures, present participle naturing, simple past and past participle natured)
- (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
References
- nature at OneLook Dictionary Search
- nature in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "nature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 219.
- nature in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- nature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- aunter, natuer, tea urn, tea-urn, unrate
Esperanto
Adverb
nature
- naturally
French
Etymology
From Old French nature, borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.ty?/
Noun
nature f (plural natures)
- nature
- (grammar) lexical category
Derived terms
Adjective
nature (plural natures)
- plain, unseasoned
- Une brioche nature ou sucrée ?
- File-moi un yaourt nature s’il te plait.
- bareback, raw dog
- Une fellation nature.
Further reading
- “nature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
nature f
- plural of natura
Adjective
nature (invariable)
- natural
Anagrams
- neutra
Latin
Participle
n?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of n?t?rus
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f
- nature, force of nature
- laws of nature, natural order
- nature, innate characteristics
- kind, sort
- origin
- sexual fertility, sex drive
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: natuur
- Limburgish: netuur, netuuer
Further reading
- “nature”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “nature”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Middle English
Alternative forms
- natur, natour, nateure, nater
Etymology
From Old French nature, from Latin n?t?ra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na??tiu?r/
Noun
nature (plural natures)
- The Universe, existence, creation
- nature, the natural world
- natural abilities
- natural inevitability, nature (as opposed to nurture)
- natural morals, natural law
- natural needs or requirements
- nature, state, condition
- species, kind, type
- Nature (allegory)
Related terms
- natural
Descendants
- English: nature
- Scots: natur, naitur, naeter, nature
- Yola: naatur
References
- “n?t?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French nature, borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f (plural natures)
- nature
Descendants
- French: nature
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin n?t?ra.
Noun
nature f (oblique plural natures, nominative singular nature, nominative plural natures)
- nature (natural world; nonhuman world)
- nature (character; qualities)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: nature
- English: nature
- Middle French: nature
- French: nature
- ? Welsh: natur
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