Etymograph

English

moderation

Moderation comes from Latin moderō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderō
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderātiō
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400moderacion
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1696moderation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderō
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoderātiō
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400moderacion
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1696moderation

Earliest quotation: 1696, William Stephens, An Account of the Growth of Deism in England: “...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind,…”

Equivalent to moderate + ion

Proto-Indo-European *med- ‘to measure’

Middle English moderat ‘moderate, temperate’

English moderate

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- ‘to go’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti ‘to go, to be going’

Proto-Hellenic *éimi ‘to go’

Ancient Greek εἶμι ‘I go’

Ancient Greek ἰόν ‘going’

English ion

Every English word from Latin moderō

Today it means

noun The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin moderō / moderation

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