ecclesia

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English

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Etymology

From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.

Pronunciation

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)

  1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
  2. (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
  3. (biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)

  1. assembly
  2. congregation

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ecclēsia

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension

    1. church (a house of worship)
      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Matthew 16.18:
        Et ego dico tibi, quia tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam, et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus eam.
        And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
    2. (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek cities)
    3. ecclesia

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ecclēsia ecclēsiae
    genitive ecclēsiae ecclēsiārum
    dative ecclēsiae ecclēsiīs
    accusative ecclēsiam ecclēsiās
    ablative ecclēsiā ecclēsiīs
    vocative ecclēsia ecclēsiae

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • “ecclesia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • ecclesia 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)
    • “ecclesia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “ecclesia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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