different between baptistry vs galilee

English

Alternative forms

• baptistery

Etymology

From Middle English baptistery, baptisterie, from Ecclesiastical Latin baptist?rium, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (baptist?rion); equivalent to baptism +? -ry.

Noun

baptistry (plural baptistries)

1. (Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
2. An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.

Related terms

• baptism
• baptist
• baptize

Translations

Further reading

• baptistry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

Noun

galilee (plural galilees)

1. (architecture) A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
2. In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “galilee”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Italian

Noun

galilee

1. plural of galilea