different between visitation vs synodal

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
4. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
5. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
6. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Translations

Anagrams

• vitiations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?sit?ti?.

Noun

visitation f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

synod +? -al

Noun

synodal (plural synodals)

1. A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
   • 1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland

     synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year

2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

Adjective

synodal (not comparable)

1. synodic; relating to a synod

French

Etymology

From Latin synodalis, from Ancient Greek (synodos) 'gathering'; cognate with Dutch synodaal, German synodal etc.

Adjective

synodal (feminine singular synodale, masculine plural synodaux, feminine plural synodales)

1. synodic, pertaining to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• synode m
• synodique

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From Late Latin synod?lis, from synodus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súnodos, “assembly, meeting”). Cognate with English synodal, Dutch synodaal, French synodal.

Pronunciation

Adjective

synodal

1. synodic, relating to a synod, notably in ecclesiastic context

Related terms

• Synode

Further reading

• “synodal” in Duden online