catechesis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).

Noun

catechesis (plural catecheses)

1. Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.

Related terms

• catechism
• catechetics
• catechist
• catechumen

Translations

religious instruction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教理講授／教理讲授, 教理讲授 (jiàolǐ jiǎngshòu)

• French: catéchèse (fr) f
• Galician: catequese (gl) f
• German: Katechese (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: katekézis
• Portuguese: catequese (pt) f
• Russian: катехи́зис (ru) m (katɛxízis)
• Spanish: catequesis f
• Tagalog: katekesis

Anagrams

• catechises

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from Ancient Greek κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.teːˈkʰeː.sis/, [kät̪eːˈkʰeːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.teˈke.sis/, [kät̪eˈkɛːs̬is]

Noun

catēchēsis f (genitive catēchēsis or catēchēseōs or catēchēsios); third declension

1. catechesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catēchēsis	catēchēsēs catēchēseis
Genitive	catēchēsis catēchēseōs catēchēsios	catēchēsium
Dative	catēchēsī	catēchēsibus
Accusative	catēchēsim catēchēsin catēchēsem1	catēchēsēs catēchēsīs
Ablative	catēchēsī catēchēse1	catēchēsibus
Vocative	catēchēsis catēchēsi	catēchēsēs catēchēseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Declension

• Spanish: catequesis

References

• “catechesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catechesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• catechesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.