ecclesiola

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of ecclēsia (“assembly, gathering”)

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.kleːˈsi.o.la/, [ɛkːɫ̪eːˈs̠iɔɫ̪ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.kleˈsi.o.la/, [ekːleˈs̬iːolä]

Noun

ecclēsiola f (genitive ecclēsiolae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) little church
    Note: Used in the Christian Pietism movements of the 17th and 18th Centuries. eg, "Ecclesiolae in Ecclesia", little churches in the big church.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ecclēsiola ecclēsiolae
Genitive ecclēsiolae ecclēsiolārum
Dative ecclēsiolae ecclēsiolīs
Accusative ecclēsiolam ecclēsiolās
Ablative ecclēsiolā ecclēsiolīs
Vocative ecclēsiola ecclēsiolae

Descendants
  • Galician: Grixó, Grixoa, Irixoa (place names).

References
  • “ecclesiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ecclesiola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ecclesiola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Heinz Jürgen Wolf (2007), “Le type *PALATIOLUM et autres diminutifs en toponymie”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique‎, volume 47-48, ISSN 0755-7752, pages 229-243.
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