templar
Spanish, verb/temˈplaɾ/
templar is a Spanish verb meaning “to temper (to moderate or control)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moderar, entibiar o suavizar la fuerza de una cosa”.
What does templar mean in English?
verb
- 1
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
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moderar, entibiar o suavizar la fuerza de una cosa. 2. Moderar, sosegar la cólera, enojo o violencia del genio de una persona. 3. Quitar el frío de una cosa, calentarla ligeramente; dícese especialmente de los líquidos. 4. Aplicar enfriamiento rápido y abrupto a un material que está a alta temperatura, para que adquiera propiedades no posibles con enfriamiento natural.
verb: 1. Perder el frío una cosa, empezar a calentarse; dícese especialmente de la temperatura. 2. Tener sexo, copular. 3. Trabajar la melaza o azúcar hasta convertirla en panela.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of templar
- templo first-person present singular
- tiemplo first-person present singular
- templé first-person preterite singular
- templado participle past
- e-ie alternation
- templando gerund
- templada feminine participle past
- templados masculine participle past
- templadas feminine participle past
- templas indicative present second-person
- tiemplas indicative informal present
- templás indicative informal present
- templa indicative present singular
- tiempla indicative present singular
- templamos first-person indicative plural
- templáis indicative plural present
- templan indicative plural present
- tiemplan indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce templar?
- /temˈplaɾ/
- [t̪ẽmˈplaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to templar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is templar in Spanish?
templar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).