Sunday, December 13, 2009

Church, in my words

clecia : church

The Illunse word for church is clecia. Clecia or Clécia is an unusual feminine first name that can be Brazilian. Clecia is a rare last name.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for church which is cirice (church, religious community; church (building), temple), and the Latin word for church which is ecclesia (church; an assembly of the (Greek) people).

2 comments:

Kendra Logan said...

Ecclesia was Latin, but it originally came from Greek. Haha, when I read that it came from the Latin I freaked out because I'm a total Greek freak, lol! I was like, "AH, NO!!" Lols :P

illunse said...

Ah, those Romans borrowed from the Greeks!

Indeed, my old 1915 English dictionary says the word ecclesiastic came from the Greek word ekklēsia meaning assembly.

In Latin the Greek k is changed to c.

Also, the Old English word, cirice, seems more resonable if you consider c as k. Doing this cirice becomes kirike. And kirike is like kirk, the word for a Scottish church.