eglise

== Middle French == === Etymology === Old French eglise. === Noun === eglise f (plural eglises) church ==== Descendants ==== French: église (see there for further descendants) == Old French == === Alternative forms === yglise, iglise, esglise === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *eclesia, from Ecclesiastical Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”). === Noun === eglise oblique singular, f (oblique plural eglises, nominative singular eglise, nominative plural eglises) church (building dedicated to religious practice; usually Christian) ==== Descendants ==== Bourguignon: églize Champenois: égllige Middle French: egliseFrench: église (see there for further descendants) Norman: éghise, êglyise, égllise Walloon: gléjhe ==== References ==== Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “eglise”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.