intemperies Latin · revision 33586

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *temp-os}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intemperiēs''' ''f'' (genitive intemperiēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A plural ''intemperiae, -ārum'' (first declension) occurs in Plautus, Cato and Gellius;^(OLD 2012) Gellius also has the accusative ''intemperiēs''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|temperiēs|t1=not|t2=due measure, mildness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|temperiēs]] belongs with [[m|la|temperō|t=to moderate]] and [[m|la|tempus|t=time]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*tempos-|t=stretch, measure]] and [[ine-pro|*temp-os|t=stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is Plautus' ''Aulularia'', with the plural for madness: ''nescio pol quae illunc hominem intemperiae tenent'', “I don't know what madness has hold of that man”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of weather and climate it is lack of temperateness, inclemency or excess:^(OLD 2012) Cato has a prayer to ward off calamities and bad weather, and Livy has an inclement sky and immoderate rains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus uses it by transfer for a storm, a calamity, that has come upon a house.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca applies it to a disordered state of the body.^(OLD 2012) Of the mind it is an intemperate state, madness, as in Plautus,^(OLD 2012) and of conduct outrageous behaviour or excess, as Cicero's friend whose outrageous behaviour he would not put up with.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of madness and of a calamity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of bad weather in a prayer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a friend's outrageous behaviour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of an inclement sky.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Of weather: lack of temperateness, [[m|en|inclemency]]; a storm, calamity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A disordered state of the body.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An intemperate state of mind, [[m|en|madness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Outrageous behaviour, [[m|en|excess]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[temperiēs]]

+ * [[temperō]]

+ * [[intemperantia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}