ἐκκλησία

See also: εκκλησία

Ancient Greek

From ἔκκλητος (ékklētos, “summoned”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix), from ἐκκαλέω (ekkaléō, “to call forth, summon”), from ἐκ (ek) + καλέω (kaléō).^[1] The τ (t) changes to σ (s) by palatalization and assibilation, triggered by the following ι (i).

ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ • (ekklēsíā) f (genitive ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς); first declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ hē ekklēsíā	τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ tṑ ekklēsíā	αἱ ἐκκλησῐ́αι hai ekklēsíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς tês ekklēsíās	τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν toîn ekklēsíain	τῶν ἐκκλησῐῶν tôn ekklēsiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾳ têi ekklēsíāi	τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν toîn ekklēsíain	ταῖς ἐκκλησῐ́αις taîs ekklēsíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱν tḕn ekklēsíān	τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ tṑ ekklēsíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ekklēsíās
Vocative	ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ ekklēsíā	ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ ekklēsíā	ἐκκλησῐ́αι ekklēsíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: εκκλησία (ekklisía)
→ Arabic: القُلَّيْس (al-qullays)
→ Ateso: ekeresia
→ Azerbaijani: kilsə
→ Coptic: ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ (ekklēsia)
→ Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 (aikklēsjō)
→ Hawaiian: ʻekalekia
→ Hindi: कलीसिया (kalīsiyā)
→ Ladino: kilisia
→ Latin: ecclēsia (see there for further descendants)
→ Luganda: ekelezia
→ Niuean: ekalesia
→ Old Armenian: եկեղեցի (ekełecʻi) (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Georgian: ეკლესიაჲ (eḳlesiay), ეკკლესიაჲ (eḳḳlesiay)
- Georgian: ეკლესია (eḳlesia)
→ Persian: کِلیسا (kelisâ)
→ Samoan: ekalesia
→ Turkish: kilise
→ Urdu: کلیسیا (kalīsiyā)
→ Western Neo-Aramaic: ܟܠܹܣܝܐ (klēsya)
→ Zazaki: kilıse

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καλέω (> DER > 8. > ἐκκλησία)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 623-4

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“ἐκκλησία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἐκκλησία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- assembly idem, page 45.
- parliament idem, page 593.
- white idem, page 977.
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