different between excommunication vs excommunicate

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin excomm?nic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ksk?mju?n??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

1. The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Synonyms

• disfellowshipment

Translations

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from the Late Latin excomm?nic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.sk?.my.ni.ka.sj??/

Noun

excommunication f (plural excommunications)

1. excommunication

References

• “excommunication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunic?tus, perfect passive participle of excommunic? (“put out of the community”).

Pronunciation

Adjective and Noun:

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ksk??mju?n?k?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ksk??mjun?k?t/

Verb:

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ksk??mju?n?ke?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ksk??mjun?ke?t/

Adjective

excommunicate (not comparable)

1. Excommunicated.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John IX:

     the iewes had conspyred allredy that yff eny man did confesse that he was Christ, he shulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.

Noun

excommunicate (plural excommunicates)

1. A person so excluded.

Verb

excommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)

1. (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
2. (transitive, historical or figuratively) To exclude from any other group; to banish.

Synonyms

• disfellowship
• takfir

Related terms

• excommunication

Translations