templar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to temper (to moderate or control)
  2. to cool down
  3. to warm up
  4. to cool off
  5. to calm down, chill out
  6. to tune (a musical instrument)
  7. to move the cape

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38k
Hyphenated as
tem‧plar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/temˈplaɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish temprar, tenprar, from Latin temperāre; the -l- in the modern Spanish word was a result of hypercorrection of a popular tendency to use -pr- in place of -pl- in many medieval Ibero-Romance languages (something which persisted in Portuguese, cf. praça, prato). Doublet of temperar, a borrowing.

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