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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
- Champenois: égllige
- 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