τέμενος

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).

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

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

• “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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • close idem, page 138.
  • consecrated idem, page 162.
  • demesne idem, page 209.
  • domain idem, page 246.
  • enclosure idem, page 271.
  • lawn idem, page 480.
  • park idem, page 593.
  • precincts idem, page 634.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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

τέμενος • (témenos) n (plural τεμένη)

1. a sacred enclosure

   also see ναός m (naós, “temple”)

2. (Islam) a mosque

   μουσουλμανικό τέμενος ― mousoulmanikó témenos ― a muslim mosque

• τέμενος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• τέμενος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el