parochia

• paroecia

From Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “sojourning in a foreign land, residency in a foreign land without citizenship > community of sojourners > Christian community under a presbyter > parish”), from πάροικος (pároikos, “dwelling beside, neighbouring; foreign”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā). The spelling parochia was influenced by the earlier borrowing parochus (“purveyor of necessities to visiting magistrates”), from Ancient Greek πάροχος (párokhos).

parochia f (genitive parochiae); first declension

1. (Christianity) parish (ecclesiastical district)

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: parròquia
• Galician: parroquia
• Italian: parrocchia
• Old French: paroisse
  • Middle French: paroisse
    • French: paroisse
  • Norman: pâraîsse
  • → Middle English: parisshe
    • English: parish
    • Scots: pairish
    • Yola: parieshe, pariesh, paryshe
• Portuguese: paróquia
• Romanian: parohie
• Spanish: parroquia
  • → Cebuano: parokya
• → Middle Dutch: prochie
  • Dutch: parochie
    • → Indonesian: paroki
• → Old High German: pharra, *parra
  • Middle High German: parre
    • German: Pfarre
      • → Lower Sorbian: fara
    • Luxembourgish: Par
• → Old Polish: parochia
  • Polish: parafia
• → Esperanto: paroĥo

• “paroecia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parochia 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)

parochia f (plural parochias)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of paróquia.