Where does “tempio” come from?
tempio (Esperanto) comes from Italian tempia, from Vulgar Latin *templa, from Latin tempula, from Latin tempora, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...
tempio (Esperanto): temple
Ancestry of “tempio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | tempia | temple |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | *templa | — |
| 3 | Latin | tempula | — |
| 4 | Latin | tempora | nominative plural of tempus; accusative plural of... |
| 5 | Latin | tempus | time, period, age; season; kairos, right time,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tempos | stretch |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | temp- | to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to... |