ecclesia

== English == === Alternative forms === ekklesia === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/ === Noun === ecclesia (plural ecclesiae or ecclesias) (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 ==== === 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(key): [ɛkˈkɫeː.si.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈklɛː.s̬i.a] === Noun === ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension church (a house of worship) (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek cities) ecclesia ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ecclesia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "ecclesia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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