tempio

Borrowed from Italian tempia, ultimately from Latin tempus.

• IPA^(key): /temˈpio/
• Hyphenation: tem‧pi‧o
• Rhymes: -io

tempio (accusative singular tempion, plural tempioj, accusative plural tempiojn)

1. (anatomy) temple

• (senses 1-4): templo (arcaic form)[1]

• From Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”). First attested 14th century[2].
• From Latin templum, from a stem related to Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos, “sacred enclosure”), Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”)[1], ultimately from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pjo/
• Stress: tèmpîo
• Hyphenation: tem‧pio

tempio m (plural tempî, templi or tempi)[1]

1. (religion) temple

   il tempio di Giove/Zeus ― the temple of Jupiter/Zeus

   il tempio di Atene ― the temple of Athens

   i tempî/templi egizi/egiziani ― the Egyptian temples

   Gesù caccia i mercanti dal tempio (di Gerusalemme) ― Jesus hunts the merchants from the temple (of Jerusalem)

   • 1321 [1308-1320], Dante, Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem, in Italian), Canto XXXI, lines 43–44:

     […] E quasi peregrin che si ricrea
     Nel tempio del suo voto riguardando, […]

     […] And almost unusual that is recreated
     In the temple of his vote concerning, […]

   • 1581 [1581], Tasso, Torquato, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem, in Italian), Canto II, ottava rima 5, lines 33–34, page 35:

     Nel tempio de’ cristiani occulto giace
     Un sotterraneo altare, […]

     In the temple of the Christians, occult lies
     An underground altar, […]

   • 1807 [1806-1807], Foscolo, Ugo, Dei Sepolcri [Dei Sepolcri] (poem, in Italian), lines 104–105:

     Non sempre i sassi sepolcrali a’ templi
     Fean pavimento; […]

     Not always the sepulchral stones at the temples
     Act as floor; […]

   • 1807 [1806-1807], Foscolo, Ugo, quoting Basilica of the Holy Cross, Florence, Dei Sepolcri [Dei Sepolcri] (poem, in Italian), lines 180–181:

     Ma più beata ché in un tempio accolte
     Serbi l’Itale glorie, […]

     But more blessed because in a temple welcomed
     Maintains the Italy glories, […]

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2. (figuratively, literary) temple.
   • 1516 [1516], Ariosto, Ludovico, quoting Anna Trastàmara d'Aragona, Orlando Furioso [Orlando Furioso] (epic poem, in Italian), Canto 46, ottava rima 9, lines 1–2:

     Anna [d’Aragona], bella, gentil, cortese e saggia,
     Di castità, di fede e d’amor tempio.

     Anna [d'Aragona], beautiful, kind, courteous and wise,
     Of chastity, of faith and of temple love.

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3. (by extension of the previous sense) temple, capital, seat

   New York è il tempio della finanza internazionale. ― New York is the temple of international finance.

   Firenze è il tempio del rinascimento italiano. ― Florence is the temple of the Italian Renaissance.

4. (literary) the sky/heaven/paradise as a temple
   • 1321 [1308-1320], Dante, Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem, in Italian), Canto XXVIII, lines 53–54:

     […] In questo miro e angelico templo
     Che solo amore e luce ha per confine, […]

     […] In this admired and angelic paradise
     That only love and light has boundaries, […]

     (literally, “ […] In this admired and angelic temple
     That only love and light has boundaries, […] ”)

   • 1581 [1581], Tasso, Torquato, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem, in Italian), Canto VIII, ottava rima 44, lines 349–350, page 256:

     Essi del ciel nel luminoso tempio
     Han corona immortal del vincer loro

     They of heaven in the luminous paradise
     Have immortal crown of their winning

     (literally, “They of sky in the luminous temple
     Have immortal crown of their winning”)

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5. the firmament as a temple
   • 1581 [1581], Tasso, Torquato, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem, in Italian), Canto XVIII, ottava rima 13, lines 97–98, page 211:

     […] : oh quante belle
     Luci il tempio celeste in sé raguna!

     […] : oh how many beautiful
     Lights the firmament in itself meets!

     (literally, “ […] : oh how many beautiful
     Lights the heavenly temple in itself meets!”)

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• tempietto (diminutive)
• ordine del tempio (“Knights Templar”)

• templare, templario (pertaining or related to a temple or the Knights Templar)
• ordine dei templari (“Knights Templar”)

• basilica
• chiesa
• santuario
• tempia

• empito, impeto, pometi