tepor

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tepor, teporem. === Noun === tepor (uncountable) (archaic) Lukewarmness, tepidness, moderate warmth. ==== Related terms ==== === Anagrams === -trope, ptero-, Porte, Perot, trope, Petro, retop, petro-, repot, petro, opter, toper == Latin == === Etymology === From tepeō +‎ -or. Proto-Indo-European *tépos (“heat”) is also possible, though the problem is the shift to masculine and the change to an R-stem. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɛ.pɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛː.por] === Noun === tepor m (genitive tepōris); third declension gentle warmth; tepidity ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: tepor Italian: tepore === References === “tepor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tepor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tepor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.