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Webster 1913 Edition
Ecclesia
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Ec-cle′si-a
,Noun.
pl.
Ecclesiæ
. [L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
1.
(Gr. Antiq.)
The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2.
(Eccl.)
A church, either as a body or as a building.
Definition 2024
ecclesia
ecclesia
English
Noun
ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)
- (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
- (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
- (biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
References
- ecclesia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Interlingua
Etymology
From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).
Noun
ecclesia (plural ecclesias)
Latin
ecclēsia
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈkleː.si.a/, [ɛkˈkɫeː.si.a]
Noun
ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension
- church (a house of worship)
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ecclēsia | ecclēsiae |
| genitive | ecclēsiae | ecclēsiārum |
| dative | ecclēsiae | ecclēsiīs |
| accusative | ecclēsiam | ecclēsiās |
| ablative | ecclēsiā | ecclēsiīs |
| vocative | ecclēsia | ecclēsiae |
Descendants
descendants
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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, 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