cathedral

English

Wikipedia

A large cathedral, with many architectural features traditional to such a structure.

Etymology

From cathedral church, from Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church having a bishop's seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathedra, “chair of a teacher, throne”), from κατά (kata, “down”) + ἕδρα (hedra, “seat”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /kəˈθiːdrəl/

Noun

cathedral (plural cathedrals)

1. A big church building, central place for some area.
2. The principal church of a bishop's diocese which contains an episcopal throne.

Derived terms

• cathedral ceiling

Translations

big church building

• Finnish: kirkko (fi), katedraali (fi)

principal church of a bishop's diocese

• Armenian: մայր տաճար (mayr tačar)
• Bulgarian: катедрала f (katedrala)
• Catalan: catedral f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大教堂 (zh) (dàjiàotáng)

• Czech: katedrála (cs) f
• Dutch: kathedraal (nl) f
• Esperanto: katedralo
• Finnish: tuomiokirkko (fi), katedraali (fi)
• French: cathédrale (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kathedrale (de) f, Dom (de) m
• Greek: μητρόπολη (el) f (mitrópoli), καθεδρικός ναός m (kathedrikós naós), επισκοπή (el) f (episkopí)
• Hungarian: székesegyház (hu), katedrális (hu), dóm (hu)
• Icelandic: dómkirkja (is) f
• Ido: katedralo (io)
• Irish: (historical) An Teampall Mór m, (since the end of the 18th century) ardeaglais f
• Italian: cattedrale (it) f, duomo (it) m
• Japanese: 大聖堂 (だいせいどう, daiseidō)
• Jèrriais: cathédrale f

• Korean: 대성당 (ko) (daeseongdang) (大聖堂)
• Macedonian: катедрала f (katedrála), соборна црква f (sóborna crkva), соборен храм m (sóboren hram)
• Malay: katedral, gereja besar
• Manx: ard-çhiamble m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: katedral (no) m, domkirke m, f

  Nynorsk: katedral m, domkyrkje f

• Polish: katedra (pl) f
• Portuguese: catedral (pt) m
• Romanian: catedrală (ro) f
• Russian: собор (ru) m (sobór)
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-eaglais f, cathair-eaglais f, prìomh-eaglais f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катедрала f, caбop m

  Roman: katedrala f, sabor m

• Slovene: katedrala (sl) f
• Spanish: catedral (es) f
• Swedish: domkyrka (sv) c, katedral (sv) c
• Turkish: katedral (tr), başkilise (tr)
• Volapük: leglüg (vo)
• Welsh: eglwys gadeiriol f