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7-letter words (1 found)

CLASSIS,

6-letter words (4 found)

CASSIS,LASSIS,SCAILS,SISALS,

5-letter words (9 found)

CLASS,LAICS,LASSI,SAICS,SAILS,SALIC,SCAIL,SIALS,SISAL,

4-letter words (16 found)

AILS,ASCI,CALS,LACS,LAIC,LASS,LIAS,SACS,SAIC,SAIL,SAIS,SALS,SASS,SIAL,SICS,SISS,

3-letter words (14 found)

AIL,AIS,ALS,ASS,CAL,CIS,LAC,LAS,LIS,SAC,SAI,SAL,SIC,SIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AI,AL,AS,IS,LA,LI,SI,

You can make 51 words from classis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of classis

classis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis . Doublet of class.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklæsɪs/

Noun

classis (plural classes)

  1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; type; kind.
  2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Dutch Reformed Church. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  3. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.
    Synonym: class

References

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklɑ.sɪs/
  • Hyphenation: clas‧sis

Noun

classis f (plural classes)

  1. (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod.

Related terms

  • klas
  • klasse

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: klasis

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *klāssis, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₁-d⁽ʰ⁾-ti- (“a call”), from *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Cognate with Latin calō, clāmō, clārus, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkɫ̪äs̠ːɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈklas.sis/, [ˈkläsːis]

Noun

classis f (genitive classis); third declension

  1. any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
  2. the armed forces
  3. fleet
  4. a group, rank, or class
    Synonyms: ōrdō, gradus, sors
  5. a class (of students)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • classis 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)
  • classis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • classis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “classis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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