ecclesiola

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of ecclēsia (“assembly, gathering”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.kleːˈsi.o.la/, [ɛkːɫ̪eːˈs̠iɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate 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

Related terms

• ecclēsia
• ecclēsiasticus
• ecclēsicdicus

Descendants

• Galician: Grixó, Grixoa, Irixoa (place names).
• Portuguese: grijó, grejó

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, volumes 47-48, →ISSN, pages 229-243.