classis

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin .

Noun

classis (plural classes)

1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
   • Clarendon

     His opinion of that classis of men.

2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “classis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɑ.sɪs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: clas‧sis

Noun

classis f (plural classes)

1. (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod.

Related terms

• klas
• klasse

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Cognate with Latin calō, clāmō, clārus, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkɫ̪äs̠ːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkläsːis]

Noun

classis f (genitive classis); third declension

1. any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
2. the armed forces
3. fleet
4. a group, rank, or class

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	classis	classēs
Genitive	classis	classium
Dative	classī	classibus
Accusative	classem	classēs classīs
Ablative	classe classī	classibus
Vocative	classis	classēs

References

• “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)
    
• 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