abstemious

borrowed from Latin abstēmius “refraining from wine, careful with one's means,” from abs- (variant of ab- ab- before c- and t-) + -tēmius, from a base tēm- “intoxicating” (also in tēmētum “intoxicating beverage,” tēmulentus “drunken”); if going back to an Indo-European root *temH-, akin to Sanskrit tāmyati “(he/she) is stunned, loses consciousness, is exhausted,” tamayati “(he/she) chokes (someone),” Armenian t^cmrim “(he/she) is stunned” (perhaps going back to *tēēmiro-)

First Known Use: 1609