templo

See also: templó

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemplo/
• Hyphenation: tem‧plo

Noun

templo (accusative singular templon, plural temploj, accusative plural templojn)

1. temple (building)

Hypernyms

• preĝejo (“place of worship”)

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese templo, tenplo, borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtem.plo/

Noun

templo m (plural templos)

1. temple

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Ido

Noun

templo (plural templi)

1. temple (building)

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Italian

Alternative forms

• tempio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.plo/
• Hyphenation: tèm‧plo

Etymology

From Latin templum, from a stem related to Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos), Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

templo m (plural templi)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of tempio

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) templō

1. dative singular of templum
2. ablative singular of templum

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Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tenplo, tẽplo
• tẽpro

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtem.plo/

Noun

templo m

1. temple (Temple of Jerusalem)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 417 (facsimile):

     Eſta quarta e como sãta maria leuou ſeu fillo ao templo e o ofereçeu a ſan ſimeon.

     This fourth (song) tells how Holy Mary took Her son to the Temple and presented Him to Saint Simeon.

2. temple (pagan, non-Christian temple)

Descendants

• Galician: templo
• Portuguese: templo

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Portuguese

templo romano

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese templo, tenplo, borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.plu/
• Hyphenation: tem‧plo

Noun

templo m (plural templos)

1. temple (building)

Derived terms

• templário
• templete

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemplo/ [ˈt̪ẽm.plo]

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish templo (cf. also the popular variant tiemplo), borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

Noun

templo m (plural templos)

1. temple (a house of worship)

Derived terms

• antetemplo
• templario

Etymology 2

Verb

templo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of templar.

Further reading

• “templo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014