temenos
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos).
Noun
temenos (plural temenoi or temene)
- (chiefly Ancient Greece) A piece of ground surrounding or adjacent to a temple; a sacred enclosure or precinct.
- 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, p. 123:
- The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.
- 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, p. 123:
See also
- tenemos
Anagrams
- mesonet, stone me, tensome, tonemes