chiesa
See also: Chiesa
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin ecclēsia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”).
The original geminated -cc-, though lost in the standard language, is still found in many regional Italian varieties.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkjɛ.za/
Audio: (file)
- (regional) IPA(key): */ˈkjɛ.za/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛza
- Hyphenation: chiè‧sa
Noun
[edit]chiesa f (plural chiese)
- church
- Synonym: parrocchia
Derived terms
[edit]- chiesastico
- chiesuola (“binnacle”)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ chiesa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- chiesa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Venetan
[edit]Noun
[edit]chiesa f (plural chiese)
- Alternative spelling of ceza
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁-
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛza
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛza/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Buildings
- it:Christianity
- it:Places of worship
- it:Religion
- Venetan lemmas
- Venetan nouns
- Venetan feminine nouns