ecclesiola
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of ecclēsia (“assembly, gathering”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.kleːˈsi.o.la/, [ɛkːɫ̪eːˈs̠iɔɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.kleˈsi.o.la/, [ekːleˈs̬iːolä]
Noun
ecclēsiola f (genitive ecclēsiolae); first declension
- (Late Latin) little church
- Note: Used in the Christian Pietism movements of the 17th and 18th Centuries. eg, "Ecclesiolae in Ecclesia", little churches in the big church.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ecclēsiola | ecclēsiolae |
| Genitive | ecclēsiolae | ecclēsiolārum |
| Dative | ecclēsiolae | ecclēsiolīs |
| Accusative | ecclēsiolam | ecclēsiolās |
| Ablative | ecclēsiolā | ecclēsiolīs |
| Vocative | ecclēsiola | ecclēsiolae |
Related terms
- ecclēsia
- ecclēsiasticus
- ecclēsicdicus
Descendants
- Galician: Grixó, Grixoa, Irixoa (place names).
References
- “ecclesiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ecclesiola 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)
- ecclesiola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Heinz Jürgen Wolf (2007), “Le type *PALATIOLUM et autres diminutifs en toponymie”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique, volume 47-48, ISSN 0755-7752, pages 229-243.