# templum
## Faroese
### Noun

templum
* dative plural indefinite of tempul

## Latin
### Etymology

Term of uncertain origin, with no parallels in other Italic languages.
* Possibly a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *temp- (“to stretch, pull”), whence Latvian tem̃pti (“to pull, stretch”), Old Norse þǫmb (“bow”), and further possibly Proto-Slavic *tętivà (“bowstring”), Old Armenian թամբ (tʻamb, “saddle”). Assuming a shift from “to stretch” to “to measure”, meant as the calculation of the aruspices. Compare also extempulō and more distantly tempus, tendō.
* Parallel formation to Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos, “sacred enclosure”), reflecting Proto-Indo-European *témh₁-lom, from *temh₁- (“to cut”). The -p- would hence be epenthetic as in exemplum. Further related to temnō, tondeō.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

templum n (genitive templī); second declension
* an open space for augural observation; open, clear, broad space
* a space dedicated to a deity; place of divine worship; sanctuary, shrine, temple
    Synonyms: sacellum, delūbrum, fānum, āra, aedis
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.511:templa deō fīuntTemples to the god are built Shrines to the god are made [there]

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* contemplor
* templāris
* templātim

#### Descendants

Romance borrowings:
* → Asturian: templu
* → Catalan: temple
* → Friulian: templi
* → Italian: tempio, templo
* → Occitan: temple
* → Old French: temple
** French: tempe
** → Middle English: temple
*** English: temple
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: templo
** Galician: templo
** Portuguese: templo
* → Old Spanish: templo
** Spanish: templo
* → Piedmontese: tempi, templi
Non-Romance borrowings:
* → Albanian: tempull, tëmbla
* → Byzantine Greek: τέμπλον (témplon)
** Greek: τέμπλο (témplo)
* → Hungarian: templom
* → Old Irish: tempul (see there for further descendants)
* → Proto-Brythonic: *temple
** Breton: templ
** Cornish: tempel
** Middle Welsh: temhyl
*** Welsh: teml
* → Proto-West Germanic: *templ (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “templum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 659ff.
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “temp-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1064f.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 610f.
* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “templum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 681
* “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, 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

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtem.plum/

### Noun

templum
* dative plural of tempel