templum

Latin

Etymology

• For *temulum, from Proto-Italic *temalom, from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂- (“to cut”). Thus a (sacred) section, analogous to Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos), from τέμνω (témnō) See also Latin temnō, tondeō, tempus.
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *templom, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”), whence also tempus and tempora.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.plum/, [ˈt̪ɛmpɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.plum/, [ˈt̪ɛmplum]

Noun

templum n (genitive templī); second declension

1. a temple, shrine, sacred place
2. an open area, especially for augury

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	templum	templa
Genitive	templī	templōrum
Dative	templō	templīs
Accusative	templum	templa
Ablative	templō	templīs
Vocative	templum	templa

Derived terms

• contemplor
• templāris
• templātim

Descendants

• Albanian: tempull, tëmbla
• Asturian: templu
• Catalan: temple
• Dutch: tempel
• Old English: templ
  • English: temple
• French: temple
• German: Tempel

• Greek: τέμπλο (témplo)
• Hungarian: templom
• Italian: tempio
• Occitan: temple
• Portuguese: templo
• Romanian: templu, tâmplă
• Spanish: templo
• Swedish: tempel

References

• “templum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “templum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• templum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• templum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a pilgrimage to the shrines of the gods: templa deorum adire
    
• “templum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “templum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 610-611