parochia

Latin

Alternative forms

paroecia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “sojourning > community of sojourners > Christian community under a presbyter > parish”), from πάροικος (pároikos, “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).

Noun

parochia f (genitive parochiae); first declension

(Christianity) parish (ecclesiastical district)

Declension

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Descendants

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

References

“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)

Portuguese

Noun

parochia f (plural parochias)

Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of paróquia.

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