templeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English temple, from 古期英語 templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.

名詞

temple (複数形 temples)

1. A house of worship, especially:
   1. A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.

      The temple of Zeus was very large.

      • 1974, DeGlopper, Donald R., “Religion and Ritual in Lukang”, in Arthur P. Wolf, editor, Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society (Studies in Chinese Society)‎^[1], Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 46:

        As of October 1968 Lukang, which had a resident population of between 27,000 and 28,000 people, had 39 temples. It is my impression that Lukang has more temples than do most Taiwanese communities of equivalent size. By temple I mean a structure that houses an image, altar, and incense pot, and is freely accessible to the general public. In speaking of the 39 temples of Lukang, I am omitting the numerous small shrines to the unknown dead (Yu Ying Kung), buildings dedicated to ancestors rather than deities (two), Christian churches (four), incense-burner associations that keep their incense pot or image in private homes, and private shrines such as the domestic altars of tang-ki (spirit mediums) or the shrine of the now defunct Ch'üan-chou guild, found in the back room of a drugstore endowed with the guild property.[...]Lukang, seen in comparative perspective, has a lot of temples.

   2. (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.

      How often do you go to temple?

   3. (Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
   4. (in Japan) A Buddhist monastery, as opposed to a Shinto shrine.
2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
3. (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
4. (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.

   a temple of commerce; a temple of drinking and dining

5. (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.

   My body is my temple.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 11–14:

     For nature crescent does not grow alone
     In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
     The inward service of the mind and soul
     Grows wide withal.

6. (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
   • 2010, James LePore, A World I Never Made, page 251:

     Again Abdullah listened intently, his eyes closed, his ten fingers forming a temple of his hands in front of him.

使用する際の注意点

• This word is rarely used in English to refer to a Christian house of worship, especially in Western Christianity.

同意語

• (house of worship): house of worship, place of worship

下位語

• (house of worship): church (Christian, usually distinguished); mosque (Muslim, usually distinguished); synagogue (Jewish); gurudwara, gurdwara (Sikh); athenaeum (dedicated to Athena), Mithraeum (dedicated to Mithras); Iseum, Iseion (dedicated to Isis); serapeum (dedicated to Serapis); hecatompedon (a temple of 100 feet length または square); hof (Germanic pagan); see also Thesaurus:temple

等位語

• (house of worship): shrine (smaller)
• (exclusive Mormon house of worship): meeting house, church (non-exclusive)

派生語

関連する語

• Templar

動詞

temple (三人称単数 現在形 temples, 現在分詞 templing, 過去形および過去分詞形 templed)

1. (transitive) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

     though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God

語源 2

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From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”). See temporal bone.

名詞

temple (複数形 temples)

1. (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
2. (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

関連する語

• temporal

語源 3

Borrowed from Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.

名詞

temple (複数形 temples)

1. (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Further reading

• “temple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “temple”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• pelmet