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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
- IPA(key): /té.me.nos/ → /ˈte.me.nos/ → /ˈte.me.nos/
Noun
τέμενος • (témenos) n (genitive τεμένους); third declension
- a piece of ground cut or marked off, precinct
- 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)
- a sacred enclosure
- also see ναός m (naós, “temple”)
- (Islam) a mosque
- μουσουλμανικό τέμενος ― mousoulmanikó témenos ― a muslim mosque
Declension
Declension of τέμενος
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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τέμενος (témenos)
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τεμένη (teméni)
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genitive
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τεμένους (teménous)
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τεμενών (temenón)
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accusative
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τέμενος (témenos)
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τεμένη (teméni)
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vocative
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τέμενος (témenos)
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τεμένη (teméni)
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