different between clerical vs parochial

English

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”), from cl?ricus (“clergyman, priest”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kl???k?l/

Adjective

clerical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to clerks or their work.
2. Of or relating to the clergy.

Derived terms

• clerical collar
• clerical error
• clericality
• clerical marriage

Related terms

• clergy
• clergyman
• cleric
• clerk

Translations

Noun

clerical (plural clericals)

1. A member of the clergy.

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kl?.?i?kal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kle.?i?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

clerical (masculine and feminine plural clericals)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• clericalisme

Further reading

• “clerical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “clerical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “clerical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “clerical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”)

Adjective

clerical m or f (plural clericais)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• clericalismo

Related terms

• clero

Further reading

• “clerical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cl?ric?lis (“clerical”), from cl?ricus (“clergyman, priest”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kl?.?i.?ka?/
• Hyphenation: cle?ri?cal

Adjective

clerical (plural clericais, comparable)

1. clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• anticlerical
• clericalismo

Related terms

• clero

Further reading

• “clerical” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French clérical, from Latin clericalis.

Adjective

clerical m or n (feminine singular clerical?, masculine plural clericali, feminine and neuter plural clericale)

1. clerical

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cl?ric?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kle?i?kal/, [kle.?i?kal]

Adjective

clerical (plural clericales)

1. (relational) clergy; clerical (of or relating to the clergy)

Derived terms

• anticlerical
• clericalismo

Related terms

• clérigo

Further reading

• “clerical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek ???????? (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek ???????? (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from ????- (para-) + ????? (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?????k??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???o?ki.?l/

Adjective

parochial (comparative more parochial, superlative most parochial)

1. Pertaining to a parish.
2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

   The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.

   Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

   • 1918, 1st of February, "Why I Joined The Army", an article in London's Daily Express by Daniel Desmond Sheehan

     But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.

   • 1969, T.C. Smout: A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, p 341:

     Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.

Derived terms

• parochial school
• parochial vicar
• parochialism
• parochially

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parochialis. Compare the inherited term paroissial.

Adjective

parochial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parochiale)

1. parochial

Descendants

• ? English: parochial