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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of ecclēsia (“assembly, gathering”)
Pronunciation
Noun
ecclēsiola f (genitive ecclēsiolae); first declension
- (Late Latin) little church
- Note: Used in the Christian Pietism movements of the 17th and 18th Centuries. eg, "Ecclesiolae in Ecclesia", little churches in the big church.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ecclesiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ecclesiola 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)
- ecclesiola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Heinz Jürgen Wolf (2007) “Le type *PALATIOLUM et autres diminutifs en toponymie”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, volumes 47-48, →ISSN, pages 229-243.