liturgy

English

Etymology

From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtɚd͡ʒi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

liturgy (countable and uncountable, plural liturgies)

1. A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion; a book in which they are recorded.

   Hypernym: (set of rituals) tradition

   Near-synonyms: (book) breviary, missal, portal, portass, psalter

2. An official worship service of the Christian church.
3. (historical) In Ancient Greece, a form of personal service to the state.

Derived terms

• aliturgic
• Divine Liturgy
• liturgic
• liturgical
• liturgics
• liturgiologist
• liturgiology
• liturgism
• liturgist
• liturgistic
• liturgistical
• Liturgy of the Hours

 

Related terms

• lay
• laity

Translations

a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals

• Afrikaans: liturgie
• Albanian: liturgjia f
• Armenian: պատարագ (hy) (patarag)
• Belarusian: літургі́я f (liturhíja), багаслу́жба f (bahaslúžba), богаслужэ́нне n (bohaslužénnje)
• Breton: liderezh m
• Bulgarian: литурги́я f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние n (bogoslužénie)
• Catalan: litúrgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禮拜儀式／礼拜仪式 (zh) (lǐbài yíshì), 禮儀／礼仪 (zh) (lǐyí)

• Corsican: liturgia f
• Czech: liturgie f
• Danish: liturgi c
• Dutch: liturgie (nl) f
• Esperanto: liturgio
• Estonian: liturgia
• Finnish: liturgia (fi), alttaripalvelus
• French: liturgie (fr) f
• Friulian: liturgjie f
• Galician: liturxia (gl) f
• Georgian: ლიტურგია (ka) (liṭurgia)
• German: Liturgie (de) f
• Greek: λειτουργία (el) f (leitourgía)
• Hebrew: לִיטוּרגִיָה (he) f (litúrgia)
• Hungarian: liturgia (hu)
• Italian: liturgia (it) f
• Japanese: 典礼 (ja) (てんれい, tenrei) (Catholic), 奉神礼 (ほうしんれい, hōshinrei) (Orthodox), 礼拝 (ja) (れいはい, reihai) (Catholic, Protestant, Anglicanism)
• Korean: 전례(典禮) (ko) (jeollye), 예전(禮典) (ko) (yejeon), 례전(禮典) (ryejeon) (North Korea)
• Ladino: liturjia
• Latin: liturgia f
• Latvian: liturģija f
• Lithuanian: liturgija (lt) f
• Macedonian: литургија f (liturgija), богослужба f (bogoslužba), богослужение n (bogosluženie)
• Malay: upacara (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: liturgi m

  Nynorsk: liturgi m

• Occitan: liturgia (oc) f
• Piedmontese: liturgìa f
• Polish: liturgia (pl) f
• Portuguese: liturgia (pt) f
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: liturghie (ro) f
• Russian: литурги́я (ru) f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние (ru) n (bogoslužénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литургија f, богослужба f, богoслужје n, богослужење n

  Roman: liturgija (sh) f, bogoslužba f, bogoslužje (sh) n, bogosluženje (sh) n

• Slovak: liturgia f
• Slovene: liturgija (sl) f
• Spanish: liturgia (es) f
• Swedish: liturgi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palasambahan, palamisahan, liturhiya
• Tok Pisin: liteji
• Turkish: litürji
• Ukrainian: літургі́я (uk) f (liturhíja), богослужі́ння (uk) n (bohoslužínnja)
• Urdu: لطوریا f (litūriā)
• Vietnamese: thánh lễ (vi), lễ trọng, phụng vụ (vi)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /litørˈɡi/

Noun

liturgy c (plural liturgyen or liturgys)

1. liturgy

Further reading

• “liturgy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011