parochia
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “sojourning in a foreign land, residency in a foreign land without citizenship > community of sojourners > Christian community under a presbyter > parish”), from πάροικος (pároikos, “dwelling beside, neighbouring; foreign”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā). The spelling parochia was influenced by the earlier borrowing parochus (“purveyor of necessities to visiting magistrates”), from Ancient Greek πάροχος (párokhos).
Noun edit
parochia f (genitive parochiae); first declension
- (Christianity) parish (ecclesiastical district)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | parochia | parochiae |
Genitive | parochiae | parochiārum |
Dative | parochiae | parochiīs |
Accusative | parochiam | parochiās |
Ablative | parochiā | parochiīs |
Vocative | parochia | parochiae |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: parròquia
- Galician: parroquia
- Italian: parrocchia
- Old French: paroisse
- Portuguese: paróquia
- Romanian: parohie
- Spanish: parroquia
- → Cebuano: parokya
- → Middle Dutch: prochie
- → Old High German: pharra, *parra
- → Old Polish: parochia
- Polish: parafia
- → Esperanto: paroĥo
References edit
- “paroecia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- parochia 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)
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
parochia f (plural parochias)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of paróquia.