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Where does “tâmplă” come from?

tâmplă (Romanian) comes 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...

tâmplă (Romanian): temple; iconostasis

Definitions

  1. temple; iconostasis

Ancestry of “tâmplă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latin*templa—
2Latintempula—
3Latintemporanominative plural of tempus; accusative plural of...
4Latintempustime, period, age; season; kairos, right time,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeantemposstretch
6Proto-Indo-Europeantemp-to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...

Words derived from “tâmplă”

  • tâmplar
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