English - Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕm'p(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -ɛmpəl

English - Etymology 1

From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”).

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. A building for worship.

   The temple of Zeus was very large.

2. (often capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
3. Something regarded as holding religious presence.
4. Something of importance; something attended to.

   My body is my temple.

5. (obsolete) A body.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:

     For nature crescent does not grow alone

     In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,

     The inward service of the mind and soul

     Grows wide withal.

6. Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.

Synonyms

• house of worship

Derived terms

• templelike
• Temple Mount
• Temple of Heaven
• temple of immensity

Related terms

• temporal
• Templar

Translations

Verb

temple (third-person singular simple present temples, present participle templing, simple past and past participle templed)

1. (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.

   to temple a god

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)

English - Etymology 2

From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”) (see "temporal bone")

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
2. (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

Related terms

• temporal

Translations

English - Etymology 3

Wikipedia

From Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.

Noun

temple (plural temples)

1. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Translations

English - External Links

• temple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• temple in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

English - Anagrams

• pelmet

Catalan - Noun

temple

French - Etymology

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

French - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃pl/

French - Noun

temple

French - External Links

• “temple” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French - Etymology

From Latin tempora, plural of tempus.

Old French - Noun

temple

Spanish - Verb

temple

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of templar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of templar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of templar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of templar.

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