Reformation

See also: reformation, réformation, Réformâtion, and re-formation

English

Proper noun

Reformation

1. (historical) The religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church.

Derived terms

• Counter-Reformation

Related terms

• reform
• reformation
• reformed
• Reformed
• reformer
• Reformer
• reformist

 

Translations

religious movement

• Armenian: Ռեֆորմացիա (Ṙeformacʻia)
• Bengali: খ্রিস্টধর্ম সংস্কার-আন্দোলন (khrisṭodhormo śoṅskar-andōlon), প্রোটেস্টান্ট সংস্কার-আন্দোলন (prōṭesṭanṭo śoṅskar-andōlon)
• Bulgarian: Реформация f (Reformacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宗教改革 (zh) (Zōngjiào Gǎigé)

• Czech: reformace f
• Dutch: hervorming (nl) f
• Finnish: uskonpuhdistus (fi)
• French: réformation (fr) f, Réformation f, Réforme (fr) f, réforme protestante f
• German: Reformation (de) f
• Greek: Μεταρρύθμιση (el) f (Metarrýthmisi)
• Hungarian: reformáció (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: riforma protestante f, scisma protestante m
• Kazakh: Реформация (Reformasiä)
• Korean: 종교 개혁(宗教改革) (jonggyo gaehyeok)
• Latin: refōrmātiō (la) f
• Norman: Réformâtion f
• Polish: reformacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Reforma Protestante f
• Russian: Реформа́ция f (Reformácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: an t-Ath-leasachadh m
• Spanish: Reforma protestante f
• Tagalog: Repormasyon
• Vietnamese: Cải cách Kháng nghị, Cải cách Tin Lành
• Welsh: Diwygiad m, Diwygiad Protestannaidd m

See also

• Catholicism, Roman Catholicism
• Christianity (Gentile Christianity, Jewish Christianity)
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Messianic Judaism
• Protestantism

Further reading

• Reformation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin refōrmātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁefɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːn/

Noun

Reformation f (genitive Reformation, plural Reformationen)

1. reformation
2. (historical, in particular) Reformation (religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church)

Declension

Declension of Reformation [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Reformation	die	Reformationen
genitive	einer	der	Reformation	der	Reformationen
dative	einer	der	Reformation	den	Reformationen
accusative	eine	die	Reformation	die	Reformationen

Derived terms

• Gegenreformation

Further reading

• “Reformation” in Duden online
• “Reformation” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Reformation on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de