Borrowed fromItaliantempia, ultimately fromLatintempus.
- IPA(key): /temˈpio/
- Rhymes:-io
- Hyphenation: tem‧pi‧o
tempio (accusative singulartempion,pluraltempioj,accusative pluraltempiojn)
- (anatomy)temple
Borrowed fromLatintemplum.[1] First attested 14th century.[2]
tempio m (pluraltemplior(often avoided due to the homonymous plural oftempo)tempior(dated)tempî,diminutivetempiétto)[1]
- (religion)temple
- iltempio di Giove/Zeus ―thetemple of Jupiter/Zeus
- iltempio di Atene ―thetemple of Athens
- itempli egizi/egiziani ―the Egyptian temples
- Gesù caccia i mercanti daltempio (di Gerusalemme) ―Jesus hunts the merchants from thetemple (of Jerusalem)
1321 [1308-1320],Alighieri Dante,Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem), Canto XXXI, lines43–44:[…] E quasi peregrin che si ricrea
Neltempio del suo voto riguardando,[…]- […] And almost unusual that is recreated
In thetemple of his vote concerning, […]
1581 [1581],Torquato Tasso,Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem), Canto II,ottava rima 5, page35, lines33–34:Neltempio de’ cristiani occulto giace
Un sotterraneo altare,[…]- In thetemple of the Christians, occult lies
An underground altar, […]
1807 [1806-1807],Ugo Foscolo,Dei Sepolcri [Dei Sepolcri] (poem), lines104–105:Non sempre i sassi sepolcrali a’templi
Fean pavimento;[…]- Not always the sepulchral stones at thetemples
Act as floor; […]
1807 [1806-1807],Ugo Foscolo, quotingBasilica of the Holy Cross, Florence,Dei Sepolcri [Dei Sepolcri] (poem), lines180–181:Ma più beata ché in untempio accolte
Serbi l’Itale glorie,[…]- But more blessed because in atemple welcomed
Maintains the Italy glories, […]
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- (figurative, literary)temple
1516 [1516],Ludovico Ariosto, quotingAnna Trastàmara d'Aragona,Orlando Furioso [Orlando Furioso] (epic poem), Canto 46,ottava rima 9, lines1–2:Anna [d’Aragona], bella, gentil, cortese e saggia,
Di castità, di fede e d’amortempio.- Anna [d'Aragona], beautiful, kind, courteous and wise,
Of chastity, of faith and oftemple love.
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- (by extension of the previous sense)temple,capital,seat
- New York è iltempio della finanza internazionale. ―New York is thetemple of international finance.
- Firenze è iltempio del rinascimento italiano. ―Florence is thetemple of the Italian Renaissance.
- (literary) thesky/heaven/paradise as atemple
1321 [1308-1320],Alighieri Dante,Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem), Canto XXVIII, lines53–54:[…] In questo miro e angelicotemplo
Che solo amore e luce ha per confine,[…]- […] In this admired and angelicparadise
That only love and light has boundaries, […] - (literally, “ […] In this admired and angelictemple
That only love and light has boundaries, […] ”)
1581 [1581],Torquato Tasso,Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem), Canto VIII,ottava rima 44, page256, lines349–350:Essi del ciel nel luminosotempio
Han corona immortal del vincer loro- They of heaven in the luminousparadise
Have immortal crown of their winning - (literally, “They of sky in the luminoustemple
Have immortal crown of their winning”)
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- thefirmament as atemple
1581 [1581],Torquato Tasso,Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered] (epic poem), Canto XVIII,ottava rima 13, page211, lines97–98:[…]: oh quante belle
Luci iltempio celeste in sé raguna!- […] : oh how many beautiful
Lights thefirmament in itself meets! - (literally, “ […] : oh how many beautiful
Lights the heavenlytemple in itself meets!”)
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