dioecesis
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.oe̯ˈkeː.sis/, [d̪ioe̯ˈkeːs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.eˈt͡ʃe.sis/, [d̪ieˈt͡ʃɛːs̬is]
Noun edit
dioecēsis f (genitive dioecēsis or dioecēseōs or dioecēsios); third declension
- diocese
- c. 1590, Abraham Ortelius, Islandia (map):
- His notis diſtinguitur limes inter vtramq; dioeceſim.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1590, Abraham Ortelius, Islandia (map):
Declension edit
Third declension noun (Greek type, i-stem, with some consonant-stem forms).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dioecēsis | dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies |
| Genitive | dioecēsis dioecēseōs dioecēsios |
dioecēseōn dioecēsiōn dioecēsium |
| Dative | dioecēsī dioecēsei |
dioecēsibus dioecēsesi |
| Accusative | dioecēsim dioecēsin dioecēsem1 |
dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsīs dioecēsias |
| Ablative | dioecēsī dioecēsei |
dioecēsibus dioecēsesi |
| Vocative | dioecēsis dioecēsi |
dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
- In older New Latin the genitive is also spelled with the Greek letter omega as dioecēseωs in the singular and dioecēseωn in the plural.
Descendants edit
- → Aragonese: diocesi
- → Belarusian: дыяцэ́зія (dyjacézija)
- → Catalan: diòcesi
- → Czech: diecéze
- → Dutch: diocees, diocese
- → Finnish: diokeesi
- → Galician: diocese
- → German: Diözese
- → Irish: deoise
- → Italian: diocesi
- → Latvian: diecēzē
- → Old French: diocese
- → Polish: diecezja
- → Ukrainian: дієце́зія (dijecézija)
- → Portuguese: diocese
- → Romanian: dioceză
- → Russian: диоце́з (diocéz)
- → Serbo-Croatian: дијецеза (dijeceza)
- → Sicilian: diòcisi
- → Slovak: diecéza
- → Slovene: dieceza
- → Spanish: diócesis
- → Tagalog: diyósesis
- → Ukrainian: діоце́з (diocéz)
References edit
- “dioecesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dĭœcēsis, is, f.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- is, f. dĭœcēsis, is, f. in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 531.
- DIŒCESIS 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)
- “dioecēsis” on page 546/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)