temenos

See also: témenos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmənɒs/

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.

See also

• tenemos

Anagrams

• mesonet, stone me, tensome, tonemes

Spanish

Verb

temenos

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