ecclesia

English

Etymology

From Latin ecclesia, 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

 

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

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/, [ɛkˈklɛːs̬iɑ]

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)

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

• → Albanian: kishë
• → Basque: eliza
• → Brythonic: *egluɨs
  • Breton: iliz
  • Cornish: eglos
  • Welsh: eglwys
• 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
  • → Sicilian: 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: cresia
• Old Spanish: eglesia
  • Extremaduran: igresia
  • Ladino: iglesia, iglezia
  • Spanish: iglesia (see there for further descendants)
• Venetian: cexa, céxa, ciesa

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