# ecclesia
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/

### 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.

#### Related terms

* ecclesiast
* Ecclesiastes
* ecclesiastic
* ecclesiastical
* ecclesiastically
* ecclesiologic
* ecclesiological
* ecclesiologically
* ecclesiologist
* ecclesiology
* sola ecclesia
* Sola Ecclesia

### References

* “ecclesia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Interlingua
### Etymology

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

### Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)
* assembly
* congregation

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* eclesia (Medieval Latin)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ekˈkleː.si.a/, [ɛkˈkɫ̪eːs̠iä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ekˈkle.si.a/, [ekˈklɛːs̬iä]

### Noun

ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension
* 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)
* (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek cities)
* ecclesia

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* Quinqueecclesiae

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: chiesa, ghiesgia, jesgia
** Italian: chiesa
*** → Sicilian: chiesa
** Neapolitan: chiesia, chiesa
** Sicilian: crèsia
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: chegia, cheja, creia, cresia
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: cîṡa, cesa, jesa
*** Ligurian: gexa
*** Lombard: gesa, cesa, gesia, xesa
*** Piedmontese:
    Occidental: gesia
    Oriental: cesa
*** Romagnol: cisa, ciṡa
** Friulian: glesie
** Istriot: cesa
** Ladin: dlieja, gejia
** Venetan: ceza
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: égllése, egleisi, élaise
** Old French: eglise (see there for further descendants)
* Occitano-Romance:
** Old Catalan: esglesia, sglesia, esglea, esgleia, glesa, glesia
*** Catalan: església
** Old Occitan: gleiza, glieza, glieyza
*** Occitan: glèisa, gleisa
    Auvergnat: lhèisa, glheisa
    Vivaro-Alpine: lhèisa, glhèisa
* Ibero-Romance:
** Navarro-Aragonese: iglesia
*** Aragonese: ilesia
** Old Leonese: eglesia, iglesa
*** Asturian: ilesia, eglesia, eigresia, eilesia, igresia, iresia, inglesia
*** Extremaduran: igresia
*** Leonese: ilesia
*** Mirandese: eigreija
** Old Galician-Portuguese: igreja, egreja, egleja, ygreja
*** Galician: igrexa
*** Portuguese: igreja (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: eglesia
*** Ladino: iglesia, iglezia
*** Spanish: iglesia (see there for further descendants)
*** → Sabir: iglezia
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Albanian: kishë
** → Basque: eliza
** → Old Irish: eclais (see there for further descendants)
** → Proto-Brythonic: *egluɨs (see there for further descendants)
* Later borrowings:
** → English: ecclesia
** → Esperanto: eklezio
*** → Ido: eklezio
** → Interlingua: ecclesia
** → Portuguese: eclésia

### 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