temenos

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).

Pronunciation

Noun

temenos (plural temenoi or temene)

  1. (chiefly Ancient Greece) Ground under, surrounding and adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
    • 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123:
      The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.

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Verb

temenos

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of temer combined with nos