temperare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to sharpen (a pencil, etc.)
  2. (transitive) to temper (metal)
  3. (transitive) to quench

Hyphenated as
tem‧pe‧rà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tem.peˈra.re/
Etymology

From Latin temperāre.

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