τέμενος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *témenos, from Proto-Indo-European *témh₁nos, from *temh₁- (to cut); whence τέμνω (témnō, I cut). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀳𐀕𐀜 (te-me-no).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τέμενος • (témenos) n (genitive τεμένους); third declension

  1. a piece of ground cut or marked off, precinct
  2. a sacred enclosure

Declension

References

  • τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • τέμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τέμενος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • τέμενος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • τέμενος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Greek

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
  • Hyphenation: τέ‧με‧νος

Noun

τέμενος • (témenos) n (plural τεμένη)

  1. a sacred enclosure
    also see ναός m (naós, temple)
  2. (Islam) a mosque
    μουσουλμανικό τέμενοςmousoulmanikó témenosa muslim mosque

Declension

Further reading

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