tepid

English

WOTD – 14 September 2010

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit tap-, Proto-Slavic *teplъ.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕp'ĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛpɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛpɪd

Adjective

tepid (comparative tepider, superlative tepidest)

1. Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

   Synonym: lukewarm

   I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

2. Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.

   Synonyms: uninterested, lukewarm

   He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

   • 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera‎^[1]:

     The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:warm

Derived terms

• tepidity
• tepidness

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tep-‎ (0 c, 8 e)

Translations

lukewarm

• Afrikaans: lou
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: فاتر (fātir)

  Moroccan Arabic: دافي (dæfi)

• Armenian: տաքավուն (hy) (takʻavun), գոլ (hy) (gol)
• Bashkir: имшеү (imşew), йылымыс (yılımıs), йылымса (yılımsa)
• Bulgarian: хладък (hladǎk)
• Catalan: tebi (ca)
• Czech: vlažný (cs)
• Danish: lunken
• Dutch: lauw (nl)
• Esperanto: varmeta
• Finnish: haalea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr)

  Middle French: tiede

  Old French: tiede

• Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl)
• German: lauwarm (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), υπόθερμος (el) m (ypóthermos)

  Ancient: χλιαρός (khliarós)

• Hebrew: פּוֹשֵׁר (he) (poshér)
• Hungarian: langyos (hu)
• Interlingua: tepide
• Irish: alabhog
• Italian: tiepido (it)
• Japanese: ぬるい (ja) (nurui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شلتێن (şiltên)

• Latin: tepidus
• Macedonian: млак (mlak)
• Malay: suam-suam kuku
• Maori: aromahana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lunken (no)

  Nynorsk: lunken

• Persian: ولرم (fa)
• Polish: letni (pl) m
• Portuguese: tépido (pt) m, morno (pt), tíbio (pt)
• Russian: теплова́тый (ru) (teplovátyj), чуть тёплый (čutʹ tjóplyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: flodach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мла̑ко, мла̑к

  Roman: mlȃko (sh) n, mlȃk (sh)

• Sotho: fofo
• Spanish: tibio (es), templado (es)
• Swedish: ljummen (sv)
• Tagalog: malahininga
• Turkish: ılık (tr)
• Walloon: tiene (wa) m or f

uninterested

• Bulgarian: равнодушен (bg) (ravnodušen), безразличен (bg) (bezrazličen)
• Catalan: tebi (ca)
• Czech: vlažný (cs)
• Danish: lunken
• Dutch: lauw (nl), flauw (nl), ongeïnteresseerd (nl)
• Finnish: viileä (fi), laimea (fi), vaimea (fi)
• French: tiède (fr), tiédasse (fr), mou (fr), indifférent (fr), atone (fr), avachi (fr), ramollo (fr)
• Galician: tépedo (gl), morno (gl)
• German: lau (de)
• Greek: χλιαρός (el) m (chliarós), άτονος (el) m (átonos)
• Hungarian: langyos (hu), lagymatag (hu)
• Interlingua: tepide
• Italian: tepido, indifferente (it), molle (it), fiacco (it)
• Japanese: 冷めた (sameta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lunken (no)

  Nynorsk: lunken

• Portuguese: desinteressado (pt), tíbio (pt)
• Romanian: dezinteresat (ro)
• Russian: прохла́дный (ru) (proxládnyj), равноду́шный (ru) (ravnodúšnyj), безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj)
• Spanish: tibio (es), flojo (es), blandengue (es), lacio (es), indiferente (es)
• Swedish: ljummen (sv)
• Turkish: ılık (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} varmeta
• Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} akyvy (t-)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} volgur (is)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} suam-suam kuku
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} tiepido (it)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} tibio (es)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} ılık (tr)
• Volapük: ^{(please verify)} vamülik (vo)
• West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} lij

Anagrams

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