different between cathedra vs cathedral

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”). Doublet of chair and chaise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k???i?d??]

Noun

cathedra (plural cathedrae or cathedras)

1. The chair or throne of a bishop.
2. The rank of bishop.
4. The official chair of some position or office, as of a professor.

Related terms

• ex cathedra

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (kathédra), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.t?e.dra/, [?kät???d??ä] or IPA^(key): /ka?t?ed.ra/, [kä?t???r?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.te.dra/, [?k??t??d???] or IPA^(key): /ka?ted.ra/, [k??t??d?r?]

Noun

cathedra f (genitive cathedrae); first declension

1. armchair (having cushions and supports)
2. ceremonial chair (of a teacher, later of a bishop)
3. the office or rank of teacher or bishop

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dalmatian: catraida, katraida, catrieda
• Italian: cattedra
• Ligurian: carêga
• Lombard: cadrega
• Old Francoprovençal: cheyri
  • Franco-Provençal: cheyèri
• Old French: chaiere, caiere (Old Northern French)
  • Middle French: chaire, chaere
    • French: chaire, chaise
      • ? Alemannic German: Scheese
      • ? English: chaise
  • Lorrain: tchaière
  • Norman: caire
    • Jersey Norman: tchaîthe
    • Guernesey Norman: tchaire
    • Sark Norman: cheez
  • Picard: caïère, caïèle (Pas-de-Calais)
  • ? Middle English: chayer, chaire, chaiere, chayere, cheyere, cheier, chaere, chayre, cheire, cheier, cheyer, cheyur, schayer, chier, cha?er
    • English: chair (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: cheer, chyre
    • Yola: chyre
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: cadera
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: cadira
  • Occitan: cadièra, cadièira, cadiera, chadèira, chadiera
• Old Portuguese: cadeira
  • Galician: cadeira
  • Portuguese: cadeira
    • Kabuverdianu: kadera
    • ? Bengali: ?????? (kedara)
    • ? Malayalam: ???? (kas?ra)
    • ? Oriya: ?????? (kedara)
    • ? Tamil: ????? (katirai)
• Old Spanish: cadera
  • Spanish: cadera
    • Chavacano: kadera
• Piedmontese: cadrega
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cjadree, ?hadree
  • Ladin: cariega
  • Romansch: chadreiga
• Sardinian: cadira, carida, cadrea, catrea
• Venetian: carega, caréga
  • ? Albanian: karrige, karrike, karrikë
• ? Celtic:
  • Brythonic:
    • Cornish: kador
    • Middle Breton: cadoer
      • Breton: kador
    • Welsh: cadair
  • Old Irish: cathaír
    • Middle Irish: cathair
      • Irish: cathaoir
      • Manx: caair
      • Scottish Gaelic: cathair
• ? Catalan: càtedra
• ? Basque: katedra
• ? Czech: katedra
• ? English: cathedra
• ? Dalmatian: catraida
• ? Dutch: katheder
• ? French: cathèdre
• ? Friulian: càtidre
• ? Galician: cátedra
• ? Macedonian: ??????? (katedra)
• ? Occitan: catedra
• ? Piedmontese: càtedra
• ? Polish: katedra
• ? Portuguese: cátedra
• ? Romanian: catedr?
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????, katedra
• ? Spanish: cátedra
• ? Venetian: càtedra

References

• c?th??dra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cathedra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cathedra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• c?thedra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 275/2
• cathedra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cathedra in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “cathedra” on page 285/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “cathedra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 158/1

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???i?.d??l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedr?lis, from cathedra +? -?lis.

Adjective

cathedral (not comparable)

1. Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop.

Related terms

• cathedratic

Translations

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin eccl?sia cathedr?lis (“church having a bishop's seat”), from Latin eccl?sia +? cathedr?lis.

Noun

cathedral (plural cathedrals)

1. A big church building, central place for some area.
2. The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
3. A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.

Derived terms

• cathedral ceiling
• cathedral termite

Translations