ἐκκλησία
See also: εκκλησία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἐκκλεισῐ́ᾱ (ekkleisíā) – Thessalian
Etymology
From ἔκκλητος (ékklētos, “summoned”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix), from ἐκκαλέω (ekkaléō, “to call forth, summon”), from ἐκ (ek) + καλέω (kaléō). The τ (t) changes to σ (s) by palatalization and assibilation, triggered by the following ι (i).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ek.klɛː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ek.kle̝ˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.kliˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.kliˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.kliˈsi.a/
Noun
ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ • (ekklēsíā) f (genitive ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- assembly
- (New Testament) congregation, church
- Synonyms: βουλή (boulḗ), γερουσῐ́ᾱ (gerousíā), σῠ́γκλητος (súnklētos)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ hē ekklēsíā | τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ tṑ ekklēsíā | αἱ ἐκκλησῐ́αι hai ekklēsíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς tês ekklēsíās | τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν toîn ekklēsíain | τῶν ἐκκλησῐῶν tôn ekklēsiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾳ têi ekklēsíāi | τοῖν ἐκκλησῐ́αιν toîn ekklēsíain | ταῖς ἐκκλησῐ́αις taîs ekklēsíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱν tḕn ekklēsíān | τὼ ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ tṑ ekklēsíā | τᾱ̀ς ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ekklēsíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ ekklēsíā | ἐκκλησῐ́ᾱ ekklēsíā | ἐκκλησῐ́αι ekklēsíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐκκλησῐᾰστῐκός (ekklēsiastikós)
- κυρία ἐκκλησία (kuría ekklēsía, “ordinary assembly”)
- σύγκλητος ἐκκλησία (súnklētos ekklēsía, “special assembly”)
Descendants
- Greek: εκκλησία (ekklisía)
- → Ateso: ekeresia
- → Azerbaijani: kilsə
- → Coptic: ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ (ekklēsia)
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 (aikklēsjō)
- → Hawaiian: ʻekalekia
- → Hindi: कलीसिया (kalīsiyā)
- → Ladino: kilisia
- → Latin: ecclēsia (see there for further descendants)
- → Luganda: ekelezia
- → Niuean: ekalesia
- → Old Armenian: եկեղեցի (ekełecʿi) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Georgian: ეკლესიაჲ (eḳlesiay), ეკკლესიაჲ (eḳḳlesiay)
- Georgian: ეკლესია (eḳlesia)
- → Persian: کِلیسا (kelisā)
- → Samoan: ekalesia
- → Turkish: kilise
- → Urdu: کلیسیا (kalīsiyā)
- → Western Neo-Aramaic: ܟܠܹܣܝܐ (klēsya)
- → Zazaki: kilıse
Further reading
- “ἐκκλησία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐκκλησία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐκκλησία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἐκκλησία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G1577 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- assembly idem, page 45.
- parliament idem, page 593.
- white idem, page 977.