different between catechesis vs catechism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kat?khé?, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Noun

catechesis (plural catecheses)

1. Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.

Related terms

• catechism
• catechetics
• catechist
• catechumen

Translations

Anagrams

• catechises

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?kh?sis), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kat?khé?, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.te??k?e?.sis/, [kät?e??k?e?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.te?ke.sis/, [k?t???k??s?is]

Noun

cat?ch?sis f (genitive cat?ch?sis or cat?ch?se?s or cat?ch?sios); third declension

1. catechesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Declension

• Catalan: catequesi
• Galician: catequese
• Italian: catechesi
• Portuguese: catequese
• Spanish: catequesis

References

• catechesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catechesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• catechesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• categise (eye dialect, archaic, rare)

Etymology

From Late Latin catechismus, from Ancient Greek *?????????? (*kat?khismós), from ???????? (kat?khíz?, “to catechize”), a later extended form of ??????? (kat?khé?, “to catechize, instruct, teach by word of mouth”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (?khé?, “to sound, resound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæt??k?z?m/

Noun

catechism (plural catechisms)

1. A book, in question and answer form, summarizing the basic principles of Christianity.
2. A basic manual in some subject.
3. A set of questions designed to determine knowledge.
   • 1925, Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel

     Inscrutable His ways are, and immune

     To catechism by a mind too strewn

     With petty cares to slightly understand

     What awful brain compels His awful hand.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• catechism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• catechism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

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