excommunication

See also: ex-communication

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  excommūnicātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

1. The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Synonyms

• disfellowshipment

Translations

act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting

• Armenian: բանադրանք (hy) (banadrankʻ), նզովք (hy) (nzovkʻ)
• Bulgarian: отлъчване от църквата (otlǎčvane ot cǎrkvata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逐出教會／逐出教会, 逐出教会 (zhú chū jiàohuì)

• Czech: exkomunikace (cs) f, vyobcování
• Danish: bandlysning c
• Dutch: excommunicatie (nl) f
• Estonian: ekskommunikatsioon
• Finnish: ekskommunikaatio (fi)
• French: excommunication (fr) f
• German: Exkommunikation (de) f
• Greek: αφορισμός (el) m (aforismós), απαγόρευση (el) f (apagórefsi)

  Ancient: ἀφορισμός m (aphorismós)

• Hebrew: חרם \ חֵרֶם (he) m (khérem), נידוי \ נִדּוּי m (nidúy)
• Hungarian: kiközösítés (hu)
• Icelandic: bannfæring f
• Indonesian: ekskomunikasi (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: coinnealbhá m
• Italian: scomunica (it) f
• Japanese: 破門 (はもん hamon), 除名 (ja) (じょめい, jomei)
• Korean: 파문 (ko) (pamun)
• Latin: excommūnicātiō f (Late Latin), excommūniō f (Mediaeval Latin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing m or f, bannlysning m or f

  Nynorsk: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing f

• Polish: ekskomunika (pl) f
• Portuguese: excomunhão f
• Romanian: excomunicare (ro) f
• Russian: отлуче́ние (ru) n (otlučénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ekskomunikácija (sh) f
• Spanish: excomunión (es) f, descomunión
• Swedish: exkommunikation (sv) c, bannlysning (sv) c
• Tagalog: ekskomunyon
• Yiddish: חרם m (kheyrem)

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from the Late Latin excommūnicātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

excommunication f (plural excommunications)

1. excommunication

References

• “excommunication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia