liturgy

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Etymology

From Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία, from λειτ-, from λαός (“people”) + -ουργός, from ἔργον (“work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).

Noun

liturgy (plural liturgies)

1. A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion.
2. An official worship service of the Christian church.

Derived terms

• liturgical
• liturgist

Related terms

• lay
• laity

Translations

a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals

• Armenian: պատարագ (hy) (patarag)
• Breton: liderezh (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禮拜儀式 (cmn), 礼拜仪式 (cmn) (lǐbài yíshì), 禮儀 (cmn), 礼仪 (cmn) (lǐyí)

• Czech: liturgie (cs) f
• Dutch: liturgie (nl) f
• Esperanto: liturgio (eo)
• Finnish: liturgia (fi), alttaripalvelus (fi)
• French: liturgie (fr) f
• Georgian: ლიტურგია (ka) (liturgia)
• German: Liturgie (de) f
• Greek: λειτουργία (el) (leitourgía) f

• Japanese: (Catholic) 典礼 (ja) (てんれい, tenrei), (Orthodox) 奉神礼 (ja) (ほうしんれい, hōshinrei), (Catholic, Protestant, Anglicanism) 礼拝 (ja) (れいはい, reihai)
• Latin: liturgia (la) f
• Polish: liturgia (pl) f
• Portuguese: liturgia (pt) f
• Russian: литургия (ru) (liturgíja) f, богослужение (ru) (bogoslužénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литургија (sh) f, богослужба (sh) f, богoслужје (sh) n, богослужење (sh) n

  Roman: liturgija (sh) f, bogoslužba (sh) f, bogoslužje (sh) n, bogosluženje (sh) n

• Slovene: liturgija (sl) f
• Spanish: liturgia (es) f

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /litørˈɡi/

Noun

liturgy c (plural liturgys)

1. liturgy