temperar
Portuguese, verb/tẽ.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
temperar is spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,790th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Temperar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to season (to flavour food)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deitar tempero em”.
What does temperar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to season (to flavour food)
- 2
to temper (metal)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deitar tempero em 2. abrandar 3. preparar 4. tornar mais acentuado o gosto ou o sabor de
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of temperar
- tempero first-person present singular
- temperei first-person preterite singular
- temperado participle past
- temperares infinitive second-person singular
- temperarmos first-person infinitive plural
- temperardes infinitive plural second-person
- temperarem infinitive plural third-person
- temperando gerund
- temperados masculine participle past
- temperada feminine participle past
- temperadas feminine participle past
- temperas indicative present second-person
- tempera indicative present singular
- temperamos first-person indicative plural
- temperais indicative plural present
- temperam indicative plural present
- temperava first-person imperfect indicative
- temperavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce temperar?
- Brazil /tẽ.peˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tẽ.peˈɾa(h)]
- /tẽ.peˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to temperar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is temperar in Portuguese?
temperar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).