Tempestas, see [Ventus].
[Templum]; Fanum; Delubrum; Ædes; Sacellum. 1. Templum, fanum, and delubrum, denote properly the temple, together with the consecrated environs, like ἱερόν; whereas ædes, the building only, like ναός; lastly, sacellum, a consecrated place without the building, with merely an altar. 2. In a narrower sense, templum denotes a great temple of one of the principal gods; whereas fanum and delubrum, a smaller temple of an inferior god, or of a hero, etc.
Tempus, see [Dies].
Temulentus, see [Ebrietas].
Tenebræ, see [Obscurum].
[Tenere]; Habere; Possidere. Tenere (from τείνειν) means, to have anything fast in one’s hand, and in physical possession; habere (from σχέω) to have in one’s power, and in effective possession; possidere (from ποτί and sedere) to have, as one’s own property, and in legal possession, Plin. Ep. i. 16. Tenet, habet, possidet. (vi. 366.)
[Tentare]; Experiri; Periclitari; Periculum; Discrimen. 1. Tentare means, to make an experiment, in order to form a judgment of something, from a desire of knowledge, and with activity; periclitari, with courage and contempt of the danger associated with the experiment; experiri, merely to learn something by actual experiment. 2. Periculum denotes danger, as occupying duration, of time; discrimen, as a point of time, as the critical moment and the culminating point of periculum. Liv. vi. 17. In ipso discrimine periculi destituat. (v. 263.)
Tenuis, see [Exilis].
Terere, see [Lævis].
Tergum, see [Dorsum].