templum

• For *temulum, from Proto-Italic *temalom, from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂- (“to cut”). Thus a (sacred) section, analogous to Ancient Greek τέμενος (témenos), from τέμνω (témnō) See also Latin temnō, tondeō, tempus.
• Or from Proto-Indo-European *templom, from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”), whence also tempus and tempora.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtem.plum/, [ˈtɛm.pɫũː]

templum n (genitive templī); second declension

1. a temple, shrine, sacred place
2. an open area, especially for augury

Second declension.

• contemplor
• templāris
• templātim

• templum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• templum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• templum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• templum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a pilgrimage to the shrines of the gods: templa deorum adire
    
• templum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• templum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 610-611