Etymograph

English

temeration

Temeration comes from Latin temerō ‘to defile’, from temere ‘by chance, by accident, at random’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temH- ‘dark’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*temH-1‘dark’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*témHos1‘darkness’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*temezi1‘in darkness, blindly’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemere2‘by chance, by accident, at random’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemerō3as temerare‘to defile’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1651–1653temeration3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin temere
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin temero
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English temeration
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1651–1653, Jeremy Taylor, London: […] Richard Royston […]: “the ancients did hide a light , and keep…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*temH-Wiktionary, Latin temere‘dark’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*témHosWiktionary, Latin temere‘darkness’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*temeziWiktionary, Latin temere‘in darkness, blindly’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemereWiktionary, Latin temero‘by chance, by accident, at random’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemerōWiktionary, English temerationas temerare‘to defile’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1651–1653temerationWiktionary, English temeration. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1651–1653, Jeremy Taylor, London: […] Richard Royston […]: “the ancients did hide a light , and keep…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *temH- ‘dark’

timid, 20 more

through Proto-Indo-European *témHos ‘darkness’

tamas, 10 more

Today it means

noun temerity

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “temeration”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin temere, Latin temero. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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