ecclesia

English

Etymology

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

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.

Related terms

• ecclesiast
• Ecclesiastes
• ecclesiastic
• ecclesiastical
• ecclesiastically
• ecclesiologic
• ecclesiological
• ecclesiologically
• ecclesiologist
• ecclesiology
• sola ecclesia
• Sola Ecclesia

 

References

• “ecclesia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)

1. assembly
2. congregation

Latin

ecclēsia

Alternative forms

• eclesia (medieval)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension

1. church (a house of worship)
2. (original sense) assembly (of the senate and the people, in the Greek free cities)
3. ecclesia

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: chiesa, ghiesgia, jesgia
  • Italian: chiesa
    • → Sicilian: chiesa
  • Neapolitan: chiesia, chiesa
  • Sicilian: crèsia
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: chegia, cheja, creia, cresia
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: cîṡa, cesa, jesa
    • Ligurian: gexa
    • Lombard: gesa, cesa, gesia, xesa
    • Piedmontese:

      Occidental: gesia

      Oriental: cesa

    • Romagnol: cisa, ciṡa
  • Friulian: glesie
  • Istriot: cesa
  • Ladin: dlieja, gejia
  • Venetian: ceza
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: égllése, egleisi, élaise
  • Old French: eglise (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: esglesia, sglesia, esglea, esgleia, glesa, glesia
    • Catalan: església
  • Old Occitan: gleiza, glieza, glieyza
    • Occitan: glèisa, gleisa

      Auvergnat: lhèisa, glheisa

      Vivaro-Alpine: lhèisa, glhèisa

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: iglesia
    • Aragonese: ilesia
  • Old Leonese: eglesia, iglesa
    • Asturian: ilesia, eglesia, eigresia, eilesia, igresia, iresia, inglesia
    • Extremaduran: igresia
    • Leonese: ilesia
    • Mirandese: eigreija
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ygreja, egreja, eigreja (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: eglesia (see there for further descendants)
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kishë
  • → Basque: eliza
  • → Old Irish: eclais (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *egluɨs (see there for further descendants)
• Later borrowings:
  • → English: ecclesia
  • → Esperanto: eklezio
    • → Ido: eklezio
  • → Interlingua: ecclesia

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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