m 3 o 1 d 2 e 1 r 1 a 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1
10 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
noun a change for the better
noun the trait of avoiding excesses
originEtymology tree Latin *med-der.? Latin *-osder.? Latin moderō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin moderātiō Old French moderacion Middle French [Term?]bor. English moderation Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French moderacion, from Latin moderātiō. By surface analysis, moderate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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