temple
English
/ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
noun
Definitions
- A house of worship, especially:
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
- (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English temple inherited from Old English templ derived from Latin templum (temple, shrine, area for auspices, a temple, especially for augury auspices, a purlin, a small timber, an open area, sacred place).
Origin
Latin
templum
Gloss
temple, shrine, area for auspices, a temple, especially for augury auspices, a purlin, a small timber, an open area, sacred place
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
宮
Emoji
🕍 🛕
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antetemple English
- goer English
- going English
- nontemple English
- temple-goer English
- temple-going English
- templed English
- templegoer English
- templelike English
- templize English
- *intemplāre Latin
- contemplo Latin
- contemplor Latin
- templaris Latin
- templarius Latin
- templum Latin
- Tempel German
- templom Hungarian
- tempio Italian
- templo Italian
- temple French
- τέμενος Ancient Greek
- *t(e)mp-lo-s Proto-Indo-European
- tempel Norwegian Bokmål
- tempel Swedish
- tempel Norwegian Nynorsk
- tempel Old English
- templ Old English
- temple Middle English
- tempel Danish
- temple Old French
- templier Old French
- temple Catalan, Valencian
- tempel Middle Dutch
- tempul Old Irish
- templ'ye Norman
- tempull Albanian
- templo Old Portuguese
- *temalom Proto-Italic
- templu Asturian
- tampeļ Marshallese
- templo Old Spanish
- tempel Chuukese