тепличь

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German templies (“Templar”) +‎ -ичь (-ičĭ), the first element from Old French templois, from Vulgar Latin templensis, from templum (“temple”).

Noun

тепличь (tepličĭ) m

1. Templar

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тепличь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 948
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “теплич”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress