ecclesia

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/

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.

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

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

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)

1. assembly
2. congregation

• eclesia (Medieval Latin)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈkɫeː.si.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ekˈklɛː.s̬i.a]

ecclēsia f (genitive ecclēsiae); first declension

1. 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)

2. (original sense) assembly (of free male citizens of Greek cities)
3. ecclesia

First-declension noun.

• “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