词汇 | temple |
词源 | temple [OE] Temple comes from Latin templum ‘open or consecrated space’. The temple which is part of your forehead is a different word, inherited from vulgar Latin and probably going back to an Indo-European root meaning ‘stretch’ from the way the skin is stretched there. |
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