different between basilica vs transept

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (basilik?), from ???????? ???? (basilik? stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from ????????? (basilikós, “royal”), from ???????? (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??s?l?k?/

Noun

basilica (plural basilicas or basilicae)

1. (architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
2. A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
3. (obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (basilik?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??zi.li.ka?/
• Hyphenation: ba?si?li?ca

Noun

basilica f (plural basilica's, diminutive basilicaatje n)

1. basilica

Synonyms

• basiliek

Related terms

• basilicum

Italian

Etymology

Probably a borrowing from (Medieval) Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek ???????? (basilik?).

Noun

basilica f (plural basiliche)

1. basilica
2. church

Derived terms

• basilicale

See also

• chiesa
• santuario

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (basilik?), from ???????? ????/????? (basilik? stoá/oikía, “royal hall”), from ????????? (basilikós, “regal”), from ???????? (basileús, “king, chief”). Confer with r?gia and see also palatium, aula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ba?si.li.ka/, [bä?s??l?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ba?si.li.ka/, [b??s?i?lik?]

Noun

basilica f (genitive basilicae); first declension

1. basilica
2. church (medieval, Eastern Orthodox)
3. oblong hall with colonnade as a court of law/exchange

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• basilica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• basilica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basilica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• basilica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• basilica in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basilica in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• basilica in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• basilica in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From French transept, from New Latin transeptum, from Latin trans (“across”) + saeptum (“fence, partition, enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æns?pt/, /?t???ns?pt/

Noun

transept (plural transepts)

1. (architecture) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

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