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8-letter words (1 found)

ECCLESIA,

7-letter words (3 found)

CALICES,CELIACS,LECCIES,

6-letter words (8 found)

CALCES,CASEIC,CECILS,CELIAC,CICALE,ECESIC,LAESIE,SIECLE,

5-letter words (23 found)

AISLE,ALECS,CAESE,CEASE,CECAL,CEILS,CIELS,CLAES,CLIES,EALES,EASEL,EASLE,EISEL,ESILE,ILEAC,LACES,LAICS,LEASE,SAICE,SALIC,SCAIL,SCALE,SLICE,

4-letter words (45 found)

ACES,AESC,AILS,ALEC,ALEE,ALES,ASCI,CALS,CASE,CEAS,CECA,CEES,CEIL,CELS,CIEL,EALE,EASE,ECCE,EELS,ELSE,ICES,ILEA,ISLE,LACE,LACS,LAIC,LASE,LEAS,LEES,LEIS,LIAS,LICE,LIES,SAIC,SAIL,SALE,SEAL,SEEL,SEIL,SELE,SIAL,SICE,SILE,SLAE,SLEE,

3-letter words (31 found)

ACE,AIL,AIS,ALE,ALS,CAL,CEE,CEL,CIS,EAS,EEL,ELS,ICE,LAC,LAS,LEA,LEE,LEI,LES,LIE,LIS,SAC,SAE,SAI,SAL,SEA,SEC,SEE,SEI,SEL,SIC,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AI,AL,AS,EA,EE,EL,ES,IS,LA,LI,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 124 words from ecclesia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ecclesia

ecclesia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)

  1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
  2. (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
  3. (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)

  1. assembly
  2. congregation

Latin

Alternative forms

  • eclesia (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension

  1. church (a house of worship)
  2. (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek cities)
  3. ecclesia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

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
    • Venetian: 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
      • 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

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

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