"distemper" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distemper.wav Forms: distempers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|destemprer}} Old French destemprer, {{uder|en|la|distemperare}} Latin distemperare Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} distemper (countable and uncountable, plural distempers)
  1. (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pathology Categories (lifeform): Veterinary medicine
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  2. (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Translations (disease): разстройство (razstrojstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), неразположение (nerazpoloženie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), penikkatauti [especially] [dogs, pets, lifestyle] (Finnish), kissarutto (english: cats only) (Finnish), Staupe [feminine] (German), szopornyica (Hungarian), conslaod [masculine] (Irish), cimurro [masculine] (Italian), morbus [masculine] (Latin), Hunjskrankheit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), чу́мка (čúmka) (Russian), valpsjuka [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun-82BV1Snv Disambiguation of 'disease': 21 79 0 0
  3. A glue-based paint. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (paint): темперна боя (temperna boja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tempera [feminine] (Italian), те́мпера (témpera) (Russian), limfärg [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun--nOHG5fu Disambiguation of 'paint': 0 0 62 38
  4. (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-noun-5D02O1eN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: canine distemper, canine distemper virus, sleepy distemper, throat distemper

Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distemper.wav Forms: distempers [present, singular, third-person], distempering [participle, present], distempered [participle, past], distempered [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], distemper [infinitive]
Rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ) Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|destemprer}} Old French destemprer, {{uder|en|la|distemperare}} Latin distemperare Head templates: {{en-verb}} distemper (third-person singular simple present distempers, present participle distempering, simple past and past participle distempered)
  1. To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
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  2. To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-1gnZ6aYy
  3. To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
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  4. To intoxicate.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-iXNtDVyd
  5. To paint using distemper.
    Sense id: en-distemper-en-verb-6DZdaQCD
  6. To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: distemperer, distemperment

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "called_from": "inflection/20250113a",
  "msg": "Colspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
  "path": [
    "distemper"
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "distemper",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.