cathedra
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Doublet of chair.
Pronunciation
Noun
cathedra (plural cathedrae or cathedras)
- The chair or throne of a bishop.
- The rank of bishop.
- The official chair of some position or office, as of a professor.
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.tʰe.dra/, [ˈkät̪ʰɛd̪rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.te.dra/, [ˈkäːt̪ed̪rä]
Noun
cathedra f (genitive cathedrae); first declension
- armchair (having cushions and supports)
- ceremonial chair (of a teacher, later of a bishop)
- the office or rank of a teacher or bishop
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cathedra | cathedrae |
Genitive | cathedrae | cathedrārum |
Dative | cathedrae | cathedrīs |
Accusative | cathedram | cathedrās |
Ablative | cathedrā | cathedrīs |
Vocative | cathedra | cathedrae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: catraida, katraida, catrieda
- Italian: cattedra
- Ligurian: carêga
- Lombard: cadrega
- Old French: chaiere
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cadera
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cadeira
- Old Spanish: cadera
- Piedmontese: cadrega
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: cadira, carida, cadrea, catrea
- Venetian: carega, caréga
- → Catalan: càtedra
- → Proto-Celtic:
- → Basque: katedra
- → Czech: katedra
- → English: cathedra
- → Dalmatian: catraida
- → Dutch: katheder
- → French: cathèdre
- → Friulian: càtidre
- → Galician: cátedra
- → Macedonian: катедра (katedra)
- → Occitan: catedra
- → Polish: katedra
- → Portuguese: cátedra
- → Romanian: catedră
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: cátedra
- → Venetian: càtedra
- → Welsh: cadair
References
- “căthē̆dra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cathedra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cathedra 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)
- căthedra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 275/2.
- “cathedra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cathedra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “cathedra” on page 285/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cathedra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 158/1
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