different between ecclesia vs sangha

English

Etymology

From Latin ecclesia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ekkl?sía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kli.zi.?/

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesiae)

1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2. (ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
3. (biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.

Related terms

References

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

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin eccl?sia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ekkl?sía, “gathering”).From the Greek ek, out of, and kaleein, to call: thus, an assembly 'called away' from worldliness.

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesias)

1. church
2. congregation

Latin

Alternative forms

• eclesia (medieval)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ekkl?sía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek?kle?.si.a/, [?k?k??e?s?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?kle.si.a/, [?k?kl??s?i?]

Noun

eccl?sia f (genitive eccl?siae); first declension

1. church (a house of worship)
2. (original sense) assembly (of the senate and the people, in the Greek free cities)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Albanian: kishë
• ? Basque: eliza
• ? Brythonic: [Term?]
  • Breton: illiz
  • Cornish: eglos
  • Welsh: eglwys
• Old Catalan: esglesia, sglesia, esglea, esgleia, glesa, glesia
  • Catalan: església
• Corsican: chiesa, ghiesgia, jesgia
• Emilian: cî?a
• English: ecclesia
• Esperanto: eklezio
  • Ido: eklezio
• Fala: iglesia
• Franco-Provençal: églésé
• Old French: eglise, esglise, iglise (see there for further descendants)
• Friulian: glesie
• Interlingua: ecclesia
• ? Old Irish: eclais (see there for further descendants)
• Istriot: cesa
• Italian: chiesa
  • ? Sicilian: chiesa
• Ladin: dlieja, gejia
• Old Leonese: eglesia, iglesa
  • Asturian: ilesia, eglesia, eigresia, eilesia, igresia, iresia, inglesia
  • Leonese: ilesia
  • Mirandese: eigreija
• Lombard: geesa
• Mozarabic: [script needed] (ecléxia), [script needed] (egléja), [script needed] (eglésia)
• Navarro-Aragonese: iglesia
  • Aragonese: ilesia
• Neapolitan: chiesia, chiesa
• Piedmontese: cesa, gesia
• Old Portuguese: ygreja, egreja, eigreja (see there for further descendants)
• Old Occitan: gleiza, glieza, glieyza (see there for further descendants)
• Romagnol: cisa
• Sabir: iglezia
• Sardinian: chegia, cheja, creia, cresia
• Sicilian: cresia
• Old Spanish: eglesia
  • Extremaduran: igresia
  • Ladino: iglesia, iglezia
  • Spanish: iglesia (see there for further descendants)
• Venetian: cexa, céxa, ciesa

References

• ecclesia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ecclesia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ecclesia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ecclesia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Alternative forms

• samgha

Etymology

Sanskrit ???? (sa?gha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).

Noun

sangha (plural sanghas)

1. The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
2. The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).

Derived terms

• cybersangha

Translations

See also

• bodhicitta
• Buddha-nature
• dharma
• enlightenment
• four noble truths
• nirvana
• six perfections
• sunyata

Anagrams

• Hagans, Saghan