noun, feminine/ˈsjen/plural: sienes
temple (part of the skull on the side of the forehead); temporal (temples of the head)
“El polvo del umbral de la puerta aplicado en pequeños parches sobre las sienes, es primoroso para combatir el dolor de cabeza.”
A development of older sen (“sense, judgement”) (compare Italian senno), influenced by conjugated forms of sentir (“to feel”) (compare siento (“to feel”)). Probably, through the intermediate of a Gallo-Romance source such as Old Occitan sen, from Vulgar Latin *sennus, of Germanic origin (compare Dutch zin (“meaning, intention”), German Sinn (“sense, mind”), Norwegian sinn (“mind”), Swedish sinne (“mind, sense”)), from Proto-West Germanic *sinn, from Proto-Indo-European *sentnos, from Proto-Indo-