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ecclesia

ecclesia · f

an assembly of the

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Where it lives

De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 45 · 54.15/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 335 · 47.51/10k
De Pudicitia 55 · 40.91/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 15 · 26.91/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 108 · 23.35/10k
Ad Martyras 3 · 20.16/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 12 · 18.84/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 9 · 16.91/10k
Ad Uxorem 7 · 16.85/10k
De Baptismo 7 · 16.39/10k
De Monogamia 11 · 15.75/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 5 · 12.8/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ecclēsĭa — Lewis & Short

ecclēsĭa (ēcclĕsĭa, ĕclĕsĭa, ae, f., = e)kklhsi/a,

Sedul. 5, 358; Venant. Carm. 3, 6, 24; and Paul. Nol. Carm. 15, 117; 28, 32),

I an assembly of the (Greek) people.

I Prop.: et ecclesia consentiente, senate and people, in the free cities of Greece: bule et ecclesia, Plin. et Traj. Ep. 111, 1. —

II Transf.

A In eccl. Lat.

1 A religious assembly of Christians, a Christian congregation, a church (eccl. Lat.; very freq.): die ecclesiae, etc., Vulg. Matt. 18, 17; id. Philem. 2; Aug. Ep. 190, 5, 19.—

2 The Church, the whole body of believers: Christus dilexit ecclesiam, Vulg. Eph. 5, 25: Dei, id. Phil. 3, 6; Aug. Serm. 137, 6; so, in coelo, Vulg. Heb. 12, 23.—

3 A Christian place of assembly, a church: ut nomine ecclesiae, id est populi qui continetur, significamus locum qui continet, Aug. Ep. 190, 5, 19; cf. also Amm. 21, 2 fin.; id. 28, 6 fin. —

B An assembly, a meeting in gen., Aus. Ep. 24, 93.

2. ecclésia — Walde–Hofmann

ecclésia, -ae f. „(griech.) Volksversammlung; jüdische und christliche religiöse Gemeinde, Kirche“ (seit Plin. ıun., rom. [neben basidica, Wartburg JII 203]; daraus entl alb. iie „Kirche“, air. eclis usw., Pedersen 1 198): aus gr. &xkinolo ds. ecligma s. elecku)ärdum. [ecónés „sacerdötes rüstici*^ Cl. IH 520, 13 al. (neben egónés V 597, 56 usw.): nach Lindsay Cl. Rev. 31, 127 f. x 7, 37) verderbt für agónzs … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ecclésia, p. 423]

In the wild

ecclesia Pseudo-Tertullian, Ad Uxorem 2.2
ecclesiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.19
ecclesia Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4.2.p2
ecclesiae Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 22.1
ecclesiarum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.5
ecclesia Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.21.p1

6 of 786 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ecclésia (scan p. 215; entry #3325).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ecclésia (scan p. 423; entry #990).

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