ecclesia
Latin
noun
Definitions
- church (a house of worship)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (congregation, assembly, gathering, meeting, those called together).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἐκκλησία
Gloss
congregation, assembly, gathering, meeting, those called together
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ecclesia English
- *eclesia Latin
- cathedra Latin
- cathēdra Latin
- ecclēsia Latin
- ecclēsia cathedrālis Latin
- chiesa Italian
- chiesucola Italian
- église French
- iglesia Spanish, Castilian
- καθέδρα Ancient Greek
- κατά Ancient Greek
- ἐκκλησία Ancient Greek
- ἐκκλησίᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἔκκλητος Ancient Greek
- ἕδρα Ancient Greek
- كاتدرائية Arabic
- eglise Old French
- eklezio Esperanto
- कलीसिया Hindi
- εκκλησία Greek (modern)
- 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 Gothic
- קתדרלה Hebrew (modern)
- ეკლესია Georgian
- gleiza Old Occitan
- کلیسیا Urdu
- cresia Sicilian
- cexa Venetian
- ciesa Venetian
- céxa Venetian
- eliza Basque
- כְּנִישְׁתָּא Aramaic
- églize Bourguignon
- ekalesia Samoan
- égllése Franco-Provençal
- gesia Piedmontese