classis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin classis. Doublet of class.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]classis (plural classes)
- (obsolete) A class or order; sort; type; kind.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- […] declared his own opinion of that classis of men.
- (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Dutch Reformed Church. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
- 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism:
- At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.
- Synonym: class
References
[edit]- “classis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]classis f (plural classes)
- (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: klasis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *klāssis, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₁-d⁽ʰ⁾-ti- (“a call”), from *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”).[1] Cognate with Latin calō, clāmō, clārus, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkɫ̪äs̠ːɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkläsːis]
Noun
[edit]classis f (genitive classis); third declension
- any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
- the armed forces
- fleet
- a group, rank, or class
- a class (of students)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | classis | classēs |
genitive | classis | classium |
dative | classī | classibus |
accusative | classem | classēs classīs |
ablative | classe classī |
classibus |
vocative | classis | classēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Asturian: clas, clase
- → Bulgarian: класа (klasa)
- → Catalan: classe
- → Czech: klasa (archaic)
- → Danish: klasse
- → Dutch: classis
- → Indonesian: klasis
- → English: classis
- → Galician: clase
- → German: Classis (biology)
- → Italian: classe
- → Macedonian: клас (klas), класа (klasa)
- → Middle French: classe
- → Norman: clâsse
- → Norwegian: klasse
- → Old Irish:
- → Portuguese: classe
- → Proto-Brythonic: *klas
- → Romanian: clasă
- → Spanish: clase
- → Swedish: klass
- → Ukrainian: клас (klas)
- → Venetan: clase
- → Yiddish: קלאַס (klas)
References
[edit]- “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- classis 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)
- classis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to spend money: pecuniam erogare (in classem)
- to build a ship, a fleet: navem, classem aedificare, facere, efficere, instituere
- to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere
- to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
- to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
- the fleets charge: classes concurrunt (Liv. 26. 39)
- to spend money: pecuniam erogare (in classem)
- classis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “classis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “classis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118
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