eglise
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Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
eglise f (plural eglises)
Descendants[edit]
- French: église (see there for further descendants)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *eclesia, from Ecclesiastical Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “gathering”).
Noun[edit]
eglise oblique singular, f (oblique plural eglises, nominative singular eglise, nominative plural eglises)
- church (building dedicated to religious practice; usually Christian)
Descendants[edit]
- Bourguignon: églize
- Middle French: eglise
- French: église (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: éghise, êglyise, égllise
- Walloon: gléjhe
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (eglise, supplement)
Categories:
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin
- Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns