parochia

Latin

Alternative forms

paroecia

Etymology

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

parochia f (genitive parochiae); first declension

(Christianity) parish (ecclesiastical district)

Declension

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

Catalan: parròquia
Galician: parroquia
Italian: parrocchia
Old French: paroisse
- Middle French: paroisse
  - French: paroisse
- Norman: pâraîsse
- → Middle English: parisshe
  - English: parish
  - Scots: pairish
  - Yola: parieshe, pariesh, paryshe
Portuguese: paróquia
Romanian: parohie
Spanish: parroquia
- → Cebuano: parokya
→ Middle Dutch: prochie
- Dutch: parochie
  - → Indonesian: paroki
→ Old High German: pharra, *parra
- Middle High German: parre
  - German: Pfarre
    - → Lower Sorbian: fara
  - Luxembourgish: Par
→ Old Polish: parochia
- Polish: parafia
→ Esperanto: paroĥo

References

“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

Noun

parochia f (plural parochias)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of paróquia.