temenos
See also: témenos
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).
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edittemenos (plural temenoi or temene)
- (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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editVerb
edittemenos
- second-person singular voseo imperative of temer combined with nos