Knight Templar

English

Etymology

knight + Templar (ultimately from Latin templum (“temple”), notably the Temple Mount in Jerusalem)

Noun

Knight Templar (plural Knight Templars or Knights Templar)

(historical) A knightly member of the crusader age military order of Templars [from 1610]
- 1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, Britain‎, London: George Bishop, page 427:
  Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem consecrated a Church for Knights Templars [Latin original: Heraclius patriarcha Hierosolymitanus ecclesiam militibus Templariis consecravit]
A member of a York rite masonic order

Translations

crusader

Dutch: tempelheer m, tempelier (nl) m, (specifically knights only) tempelridder m
German: Tempelritter (de) m
Portuguese: templário (pt) m, cavaleiro templário m
Ukrainian: тампліє́р m (tamplijér)

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