Etymograph

English

immoderate

Immoderate comes from Latin immoderātus ‘unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderate’, and goes back to moderātus ‘mitigated, managed, controlled, moderated’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderātus‘mitigated, managed, controlled, moderated’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmoderātus‘unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderate’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inmoderat
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2023immoderate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderātus‘mitigated, managed, controlled, moderated’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmoderātus‘unrestrained, unbridled, excessive, immoderate’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500inmoderat
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2023immoderate

Earliest quotation: 2023, Ian Bogost, Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?: “Many of the initial responses to GPT-4’s exam prowess…”

Every English word from Latin moderātus

Today it means

adj Not moderate; excessive.

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Etymograph / Latin moderātus / immoderate

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