'Temperance' is Latin for 'proper mixing' — the same root links 'temperature,' 'temper,' and 'tempo.'
Moderation or self-restraint, especially in eating and drinking.
From Old French temperance, from Latin temperantia (moderation, self-restraint), from temperare (to mix in due proportion, to regulate, to moderate). The PIE root underlying temperare is *temp- (to stretch, to extend in time or space), possibly related to *ten- (to stretch), giving the core sense of stretching things to the right measure. Latin tempus (time) and temperatura (a mixing, a proper proportion) come
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