different between consistory vs classis

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French consistorie (“secular tribunal”) (Old French consistoire), and Late Latin consistorium (“waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council”). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?st??i/

Noun

consistory (plural consistories)

1. A place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
2. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
   • 1860-1876, Walter Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury

     In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin

3. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
4. A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
5. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) A civil court of justice.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

References

• consistory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Latin. Doublet of class.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæs?s/

Noun

classis (plural classes)

1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
   • 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism

     At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.

3. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.

   Synonym: order

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?.s?s/
• Hyphenation: clas?sis

Noun

classis f (plural classes)

1. (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod.

Related terms

• klas
• klasse

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kl?ssis, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to call, shout”). Cognate with Latin cal?, cl?m?, cl?rus, concilium, Ancient Greek ????? (kalé?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?klas.sis/, [?k??äs???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?klas.sis/, [?kl?s?is]

Noun

classis f (genitive classis); third declension

1. any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
2. the armed forces
3. fleet
4. a group, rank, or class

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -?).

Descendants

• ? Asturian: clas
• ? Dutch: classis
• ? Catalan: classe
• ? English: classis
• ? Italian: classe
• ? Middle French: classe
  • ? English: class
    • ? Hindi: ????? (kl?s)
    • ? Japanese: ???
    • ? Korean: ??? (keullaeseu)
    • ? Thai: ???? (klâas)
  • French: classe
    • ? Dutch: klasse, Dutch: klas
      • ? Indonesian: kelas
    • ? German: Klasse
      • ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????
    • ? Persian: ?????
    • ? Romanian: clas?
    • ? Vilamovian: klass
• ? Portuguese: classe
• ? Spanish: clase
• ? Venetian: clase
• ? Welsh: clas

References

• classis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• classis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• classis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• classis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• classis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• classis in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press