ecclesia

English

Etymology

From Latin ecclesia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)

1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2. (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
3. (biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ecclesiast
• Ecclesiastes
• ecclesiastic
• ecclesiastical

• ecclesiastically
• ecclesiologic
• ecclesiological
• ecclesiologically

• ecclesiologist
• ecclesiology
• Sola Ecclesia

References

• ecclesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)

1. church
2. congregation

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Latin

ecclēsia

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈkleː.si.a/, [ɛkˈkɫeː.si.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈkle.si.a/, [ekˈkleː.si.a]

Noun

ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension

1. church (a house of worship)

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ecclēsia	ecclēsiae
Genitive	ecclēsiae	ecclēsiārum
Dative	ecclēsiae	ecclēsiīs
Accusative	ecclēsiam	ecclēsiās
Ablative	ecclēsiā	ecclēsiīs
Vocative	ecclēsia	ecclēsiae

Descendants

• → Albanian: kishë
• → Basque: eliza
• Old Catalan: esglesia, sglesia, esglea, esgleia, glesa, glesia
  • Catalan: església
• Corsican: chiesa, ghiesgia, jesgia
• Emilian: cîṡa
• English: ecclesia
• Esperanto: eklezio
  • Ido: eklezio
• Fala: iglesia
• Franco-Provençal: églésé
• Old French: eglise, esglise, iglise (see there for further descendants)
• Friulian: glesie
• Interlingua: ecclesia
• → Old Irish: eclais (see there for further descendants)
• Istriot: cesa
• Italian: chiesa
• Ladin: dlieja, gejia
• Old Leonese: eglesia, iglesa
  • Asturian: ilesia, eglesia, eigresia, eilesia, igresia, iresia, inglesia
  • Leonese: ilesia
  • Mirandese: eigreija
• Lombard: geesa
• Mozarabic: [script needed] (ecléxia), [script needed] (egléja), [script needed] (eglésia)
• Navarro-Aragonese: iglesia
  • Aragonese: ilesia
• Neapolitan: chiesia, chiesa
• Piedmontese: cesa, gesia
• Old Portuguese: ygreja, egreja, eigreja (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: gleiza, glieza, glieyza (see there for further descendants)
• Romagnol: cisa
• Sabir: iglezia
• Sardinian: chegia, cheja, creia, cresia
• Sicilian: chiesa, cresia
• Old Spanish: eglesia
  • Extremaduran: igresia
  • Ladino: iglesia, iglezia
  • Spanish: iglesia (see there for further descendants)
• Venetian: cexa, céxa, ciesa
• → Welsh: eglwys

References

• ecclesia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ecclesia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ecclesia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ecclesia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin