English
Knight Templar
Knight Templar comes from Latin templum ‘temple’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemplum‘temple’
- Englishearliest quotation 1577Knight Templar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtemplum‘temple’
- Englishearliest quotation 1577Knight Templar
Earliest quotation: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, Henry the seconde: “[T]he ſame Caſtels were delyuered into the handes of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *temp- ‘to stretch, pull’
temperature, contemporary, temporary, tense, antenna, temper, tempo, template, tamper, matin, tempura, 27 more
through Latin templum ‘temple’
Today it means
noun A knightly member of the crusader age military order of Templars.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin templum / Knight Templar