different between temperate vs stonecrop

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperatus, past participle of temperare (“moderate, forbear, combine properly”). See temper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mp???t/
• Hyphenation: temp?pe?rate

Adjective

temperate (comparative more temperate, superlative most temperate)

1. Moderate; not excessive
   • 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
   • August 9, 1768, Benjamin Franklin, To John Alleyne, Esq. On Early Marriages

     Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
3. Proceeding from temperance.
4. Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• (geology) temperate zone, that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.

Related terms

• temper
• temperature

Translations

Verb

temperate (third-person singular simple present temperates, present participle temperating, simple past and past participle temperated)

1. (obsolete) To render temperate; to moderate

   Synonyms: soften, temper

Translations

References

• temperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• petameter, petametre

Italian

Verb

temperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of temperare
2. second-person plural imperative of temperare
3. feminine plural of temperato

Latin

Verb

temper?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of temper?

References

• temperate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• temperate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

stone +? crop, from the apparent ability of the plant to grow out of bare rock and stone.

Noun

stonecrop (countable and uncountable, plural stonecrops)

1. Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

     A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the bows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

2. Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae.

Derived terms

• ditch stonecrop
• Virginia stonecrop, Virginian stonecrop

Translations

Anagrams

• necropost