liturgy

liturgy

English

Etymology

From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəd͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtɚd͡ʒi/

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Noun

liturgy (countable and uncountable, plural liturgies)

1. A predetermined or prescribed set of rituals that are performed, usually by a religion.
2. An official worship service of the Christian church.
3. (historical) In Ancient Greece, a form of personal service to the state.

Derived terms

• aliturgic
• liturgic
• liturgical
• liturgics
• liturgiologist
• liturgiology
• liturgism
• liturgist
• liturgistic
• liturgistical
• Liturgy of the Hours

 

Related terms

• lay
• laity

Translations

a predetermined or prescribed set of rituals

Albanian: liturgjia f Armenian: պատարագ (hy) (patarag) Belarusian: літургі́я f (liturhíja), багаслу́жба f (bahaslúžba), богаслужэ́нне n (bohaslužénnje) Breton: liderezh m Bulgarian: литурги́я f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние n (bogoslužénie) Catalan: litúrgia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 禮拜儀式／礼拜仪式 (zh) (lǐbài yíshì), 禮儀／礼仪 (zh) (lǐyí) Corsican: liturgia f Czech: liturgie f Danish: liturgi c Dutch: liturgie (nl) f Esperanto: liturgio Estonian: liturgia Finnish: liturgia (fi), alttaripalvelus French: liturgie (fr) f Friulian: liturgjie f Galician: liturxia f Georgian: ლიტურგია (ka) (liṭurgia) German: Liturgie (de) f Greek: λειτουργία (el) f (leitourgía) Hebrew: לִיטוּרגִיָה‎ (he) f (litúrgia) Hungarian: liturgia (hu) Italian: liturgia (it) f Japanese: (Catholic) 典礼 (ja) (てんれい, tenrei), (Orthodox) 奉神礼 (ほうしんれい, hōshinrei), (Catholic, Protestant, Anglicanism) 礼拝 (ja) (れいはい, reihai) Korean: 전례(典禮) (ko) (jeollye), 예전(禮典) (ko) (yejeon), 례전(禮典) (ryejeon) (North Korea) Ladino: liturjia Latin: liturgia f Latvian: liturģija f Lithuanian: liturgija (lt) f Macedonian: литургија f (liturgija) Malay: upacara (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: liturgi m Nynorsk: liturgi m Occitan: liturgia (oc) f Piedmontese: liturgìa f Polish: liturgia (pl) f Portuguese: liturgia (pt) f Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: liturghie (ro) f Russian: литурги́я (ru) f (liturgíja), богослуже́ние (ru) n (bogoslužénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: литургија f, богослужба f, богoслужје n, богослужење n Roman: liturgija (sh) f, bogoslužba f, bogoslužje (sh) n, bogosluženje (sh) n Slovak: liturgia f Slovene: liturgija (sl) f Spanish: liturgia (es) f Swedish: liturgi (sv) c Tagalog: palasambahan, palamisahan, liturhiya Turkish: litürji Ukrainian: літургі́я (uk) f (liturhíja), богослужі́ння (uk) n (bohoslužínnja) Urdu: لطوریا‎ f (litūriā) Vietnamese: thánh lễ, lễ trọng, phụng vụ

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /litørˈɡi/

Noun

liturgy c (plural liturgyen or liturgys)

1. liturgy

Further reading

• “liturgy”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011