meschita

Latin

Etymology

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Arabic سَجَدَ (sajada)

Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid)bor.

Latin meschīta

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

• (Germany) IPA^(key): /mɛ.ˈʃɪ.tʰa/ (at time of borrowing)
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mesˈkiː.ta]

Noun

meschīta f (genitive meschītae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) mosque
   • 1591, Leunclavius, Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII‎^[1], column 195:

     Condidit secundum haec Urchan Nicaeae magnam quamdam meschitam sive templum, in quo sui die Veneris hebdomadarium, Muhametano ritu, festum celebrarent.

     Accordingly Orhan built a certain great mosque or temple in Nicaea, in which his people were to celebrate a weekly feast on Friday in the Mohammedan rite.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	meschīta	meschītae
genitive	meschītae	meschītārum
dative	meschītae	meschītīs
accusative	meschītam	meschītās
ablative	meschītā	meschītīs
vocative	meschīta	meschītae

Descendants

• Spanish: mezquita
  • → Asturian: mezquita
  • → English: mezquita
  • → Italian: meschita, moschea (see there for further descendants)
  • → Tagalog: meskita
• Portuguese: mesquita

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “meschita”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill