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templar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

templar (plural templars)

  • (law, UK) A barrister having chambers in the Inner Temple or Middle Temple.

Adjective

templar (comparative more templar, superlative most templar)

  • (obsolete) Of or relating to a temple.
    • ✤ solitary, family, and templar devotion1

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA: /ˈtemplər/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English templer, from Old French templier; cf. the Medieval Latin templārius, from Latin templum (“temple”).

Etymology 2

From Late Latin templāris, from Latin templum (“temple”) + -āris, equivalent to temple +‎ -ar.2

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Footnotes

  1. c. 1815-1833?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Donne ↩

  2. James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Templar (te·mplăɹ), a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 166, column 1. ↩

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