ecclesia
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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈkle.si.a/, [ekˈklɛːs̬iä]
Noun edit
ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension
- church (a house of worship)
- (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek 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 |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Later borrowings:
References edit
- “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