different between latria vs hyperdulia

English

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (latreía, “service,” “worship”), from ????????? (latreuein, “wait on,” “serve with prayer”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??t?a??/

Noun

latria (usually uncountable, plural latrias)

1. (theology) the highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone

Related terms

• latreutic, latreutical (both rare)
• -latry

Coordinate terms

• dulia
• hyperdulia

Anagrams

• Altair, atrial, lariat, talari

Italian

Noun

latria f (plural latrie)

1. latria

Related terms

• latreutico

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin hyperd?l?a, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ???? (hupér, “above”) + dulia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (douleía, “slavery”), from ?????? (doûlos, “slave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??p?du??l???/

Noun

hyperdulia (usually uncountable, plural hyperdulias)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 451:

     By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Related terms

• dulia