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noun, masculine

templo

/ˈtemplo/

noun, masculine/ˈtemplo/plural: templos

temple (a house of worship)

Related: antetemplo, templario

Inherited from Old Spanish templo (cf. also the popular variant tiemplo), borrowed from Latin templum, from Proto-Indo-European *t(e)mp-lo-s, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).