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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)
- (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
- (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
- (biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “ecclesia” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Interlingua[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”)
Noun[edit]
ecclesia (plural ecclesias)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈkleː.si.a/, [ɛkˈkɫ̪eːs̠iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈkle.si.a/, [ekˈklɛːs̬iä]
Noun[edit]
ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension
- church (a house of worship)
- (original sense) assembly (of the senate and the people, in the Greek free cities)
- ecclesia
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- Istriot:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- → Albanian: kishë
- → Basque: eliza
- → Proto-Brythonic: *egluɨs (see there for further descendants)
- → English: ecclesia
- → Esperanto: eklezio
- → Ido: eklezio
- → Old Irish: eclais (see there for further descendants)
- → Interlingua: ecclesia
References[edit]
- “ecclesia”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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
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