Quinqueecclesiae
Latin
Alternative forms
- Quīnque-Ecclēsiae, Quīnque Ecclēsiae, Quīnquecclēsiae
Etymology
quīnque (“five”) + ecclēsiae (“churches”), plausibly after a local Christian community of the Roman era.[1] The synonym Quīnque Basilicae is attested in a charter of Louis the German in 871.[2]
Proper noun
Quīnqueecclēsiae f pl (genitive Quīnqueecclēsiārum); first declension
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Pécs (a city in Hungary)
- 1782–1804, Joseph Koller, Historia Episcopatus Quinqueecclesiarum [History of the Bishopric of Pécs]
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Quīnqueecclēsiae |
| Genitive | Quīnqueecclēsiārum |
| Dative | Quīnqueecclēsiīs |
| Accusative | Quīnqueecclēsiās |
| Ablative | Quīnqueecclēsiīs |
| Vocative | Quīnqueecclēsiae |
Derived terms
- Quīnqueecclēsiēnsis
Descendants
- → English: Five Churches (calque)
- → French: Cinq-Églises (calque)
- →? German: Fünfkirchen (calque)
- → Italian: Cinquechiese (calque)
- →? Slovak: Päťkostolie (calque)
References
- Engel, Pál (2001) The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary 895–1526, I. B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 5
- Nyelvészeti tanulmányok (in Hungarian), volume 23, 1982, page 74