meschita
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ˈʃi.ta/ (at time of borrowing, with the sound /ʃ/ expressed through German orthography)
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mesˈki.ta/, [mesˈkiːt̪ä]
Noun
meschita f (genitive meschitae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) mosque
- 1591, Leunclavius, Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII, column 195:
- Condidit secundum haec Urchan Nicaeae magnam quamdam meschitam sive templum, in quo sui die Veneris hebdomadarium, Muhametano ritu, festum celebrarent.
- Accordingly Orhan built a certain great mosque or temple in Nicaea, in which his people were to celebrate a weekly feast on Friday in the Mohammedan rite.
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Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | meschita | meschitae |
| Genitive | meschitae | meschitārum |
| Dative | meschitae | meschitīs |
| Accusative | meschitam | meschitās |
| Ablative | meschitā | meschitīs |
| Vocative | meschita | meschitae |
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “meschita”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill