igreja
Portuguese
/i.ˈɣɾɐ.ʒɐ/, /i.ˈɡɾe.ʒɐ/
noun
Definitions
- church a house of worship
- (Christianity) a Christian denomination
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese ygreja inherited from Latin ecclēsia (church) derived from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (congregation, assembly, gathering, meeting, those called together).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἐκκλησία
Gloss
congregation, assembly, gathering, meeting, those called together
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ecclesia English
- *eclesia Latin
- ecclesia Latin
- ecclēsia Latin
- eclesia Latin
- chiesa Italian
- chiesucola Italian
- église French
- anteiglesia Spanish, Castilian
- iglesia Spanish, Castilian
- ἐκκλησία Ancient Greek
- ἐκκλησίᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἔκκλητος Ancient Greek
- anti-igreja Portuguese
- eglise Old French
- eklezio Esperanto
- església Catalan, Valencian
- कलीसिया Hindi
- गिरजा Hindi
- igrexa Galician
- εκκλησία Greek (modern)
- gereja Indonesian
- eglwys Welsh
- eclais Old Irish
- gereja Malay
- kishë Albanian
- eglise Middle French
- 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 Gothic
- ygreja Old Portuguese
- ეკლესია Georgian
- iglesia Classical Nahuatl
- ગિરજા Gujarati
- gereza Swahili
- glèisa Occitan
- glesie Friulian
- gleiza Old Occitan
- کلیسیا Urdu
- گرجا Urdu
- eglesia Old Spanish
- glüg Volapük
- iglesia Papiamentu
- legliz Mauritian Creole
- gréja Javanese
- ꦒꦿꦺꦗ Javanese
- इगर्जे Konkani
- eglizy Malagasy
- dlieja Ladin
- cesa Istriot
- ecclesia Interlingua
- legliz Seychellois Creole
- eigreija Mirandese
- ekalesia Samoan
- ikelesia Palauan
- गिरजा Bodo (India)
- eglesia Old Leonese
- iglesia Navarro-Aragonese