tempo-, tempor-

1. Not temperate, excessive, extreme; especially, of climate or weather, inclement, severe.
2. Of persons, their actions, or habits. Without temperance or moderation; going beyond due bounds; immoderate, unbridled; violent.
3. Characterized by or addicted to excessive indulgence in a passion or appetite.
4. Given to the immoderate use of intoxicating drink; addicted to drinking.

1. Relating to all times; including in its meaning all of the various tenses.
2. Pertaining to all times.
3. God existing at all times; the eternality of the Supreme Being.
4. A general truth in timeless reality; timeless truth.
5. Existing now, and having a past, present, and future.
6. Existing at every moment of time.

Before time began; antemundane.

1. At the present time but not permanently. A chairperson pro tem is chairperson pro tempore; that is, to serve until a permanent chairperson is selected.
2. For the time; temporarily.

Existing in both space and time.

That which is above time; transcending time.

1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate: "temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom" (Robert H. Jackson)
2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by or as if by blending, admixing, or kneading: temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil.
3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
4. To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen: soldiers who had been tempered by combat.
5. To adjust finely, attune: a portfolio that is tempered to the investor's needs.
6. A state of mind or emotions; disposition: an even temper
7. Calmness of mind or emotions; composure: lose one's temper.
8. A tendency to become easily angry or irritable: a quick temper.
9. An outburst of rage: a fit of temper.
10. A characteristic general quality: tone: heroes who exemplified the medieval temper, the politicized temper of the 1930's.
11. The condition of being tempered.
12. The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
13. The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
14. Archaic: A middle course between extremes; a mean.

From Middle English temprien, tempren, from Old English temprian, "to moderate, regulate, mingle", and Old French temprer (French temperer), which both derive from Latin temperare, "to mix in due proportion, combine properly, moderate, regulate", probably from temper-, a variant of tempor- stem of tempus, time, pertaining to time, season.

1. The manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting characteristic of a specific person; such as, a nervous temperament. "Temperament is a special subcommittee of character; it is less intellect than instinct, more about music than lyrics." - Nancy Giggs
2. The distinguishing mental and physical characteristics of a human being according to medieval physiology, resulting from dominance of one of the four humors.
3. Excessive irritability or sensitiveness: "He was an actor with too much temperament."
4. Etymology: existing since about 1412, "proportioned mixture of elements", from Latin temperamentum, "proper mixture"; from temperare, "to mix".

In medieval theory, it meant a combination of qualities (hot, cold, moist, dry) that determined the nature of an organism; this was extended to a combination of the four humors (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic) that made up a person's characteristic disposition.

The general sense of "habit of mind, natural disposition" is from 1821; then temperamental, "of or pertaining to temperament" appeared in about 1646; and in the sense of "moody" it is recorded from about 1907.

1. Relating to or caused by temperament: our temperamental difference.
2. Excessively sensitive or irritable; moody.
3. Likely to perform unpredictably, undependable: a temperamental motor.

1. Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
2. Restraint in the use of or abstinence from alcoholic liquors.

Another meaning of Latin temperare was "to restrain oneself", which has come through into the derivatives temperance and temperate.

1. Exercising moderation and self-restraint: learned to be temperate in eating and drinking.
2. Moderate in degree or quality; restrained: temperate criticism.
3. Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.

1. A severe storm with very high winds and often rain, hail, or snow.
2. A severe commotion or disturbance, especially an emotional upheaval.
3. From Latin tempestas, from tempus, "time".

The Latin word originally meant "period of time", which evolved into "weather" and, finally, "storm". Tempus resulted in a neutral condition as "weather", and provided the word for "weather" in modern French (temps), Italian (tempo), Spanish (tiempo), and Romanian (timp).

Other languages whose word for "weather" came from a term originally denoting "time" include Russian (pogodo), Polish (czas), Czech (pocasi), Latvian (laiks), and Breton (amzer).