meschita

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

meschita f (genitive meschitae); 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meschita	meschitae
Genitive	meschitae	meschitārum
Dative	meschitae	meschitīs
Accusative	meschitam	meschitās
Ablative	meschitā	meschitīs
Vocative	meschita	meschitae

Descendants

• Spanish: mezquita
  • → Italian: moschea
    • → French: mosquée
      • Haitian Creole: moske
      • → English: mosque
      • → German: Moschee
        • → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
      • → Malagasy: moske
      • → Romanian: moschee
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
• Portuguese: mesquita

References

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