parish
English
/ˈpæɹɪʃ/, /ˈpæɹɪʃ/
noun
Definitions
- In the Anglican Anglican, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English parisshe derived from Old French paroisse derived from Latin parochia derived from Ancient Greek παροικία (a dwelling abroad, dwelling abroad).
Origin
Ancient Greek
παροικία
Gloss
a dwelling abroad, dwelling abroad
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- church English
- interparish English
- nonparish English
- outparish English
- parish church English
- parochia Latin
- paroecia Latin
- Parochie German
- Pfarre German
- parroquia Spanish, Castilian
- πάροικος Ancient Greek
- παροικία Ancient Greek
- πᾰροικῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- paróquia Portuguese
- parische chirche Middle English
- parissh prest Middle English
- parisshe Middle English
- parisshen Middle English
- paróiste Irish
- paroisse Old French
- paroissial Old French
- parròquia Catalan, Valencian
- parroquia Galician
- parohie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- prochie Middle Dutch
- pfarrāri Old High German
- pairish Scots
- paroche xno
- parochia LL