temno-, temn-
(Greek: to cut, cutting; literally, a piece cut off)
A dread of being around people who have an amputation or a fear that one will lose an appendage: Jane became afflicted with apotemnophobia because she was afraid and terrified of saying the wrong thing or acting in the wrong way when encountering such a handicapped person.
autotemnous (adjective), more autotemnous, most autotemnous
1. A reference to being capable of spontaneous division.
2. Pertaining to a cell that propagates itself by fission, or cell division, without being previously joined together.
2. Pertaining to a cell that propagates itself by fission, or cell division, without being previously joined together.
temenos (s), temene (pl)
The sacred area surrounding a temple in Greek antiquity.
A sacred precinct, literally, a place cut off, a section.
Greek temenos (τέμενος, from the Greek verb τέμνω "to cut"). It was a piece of land cut off and declared to be an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, a holy grove, or a holy precinct.
Examples of temene: The Pythian race-course was called a temenos; as well as, the sacred valley of the Nile, the Acropolis was the temenos of Pallas, and Olympia was the temenos of Zeus.
Related cutting-word units: cast-; castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; mutil-; put-; sec-, seg-; -tomy; trunc-.
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