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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dioecēsis f (genitive dioecēsis or dioecēseōs or dioecēsios); third declension
- diocese
Declension
Third declension noun (Greek type, i-stem, with some consonant-stem forms).
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
References
- “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)
