different between spiritual vs pneumatology

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuall

Etymology

From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp???t???l/, /?sp???tj??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sp???t?u?l/, /?sp????t??ul?/

Adjective

spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

   a spiritual substance or being

   • It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. (Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

   • If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.

7. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

   the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spiritual (plural spirituals)

1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

   He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

Synonyms

• folk song

Translations

References

• spiritual at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spiritual in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• spiritual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French spirituel, Late Latin sp?ritu?lis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spiritu?al/

Adjective

spiritual m or n (feminine singular spiritual?, masculine plural spirituali, feminine and neuter plural spirituale)

1. spiritual

Declension

Synonyms

• sufletesc

Related terms

• spiritualism
• spiritualitate

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (pneûma, “breath”) +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Britain) IPA^(key): /?nju?.m??t?.l?.d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?nu?.m??t?.l?.d?i/

Noun

pneumatology (countable and uncountable, plural pneumatologies)

1. The study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God.
2. (Christianity, theology) The study of the Holy Spirit as revealed in Scripture.
3. The science dealing with air or gases, their physical and chemical properties, therapeutic applications, etc.

Related terms

• pneumatological
• pneumatologist