Noun: ecclesia
| Singular | ecclesia |
| Plural | ecclesiae; ecclesias |
Sample Sentences
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The 1880s were no more peaceful for the ecclesias than had been the 1870s. Generally membership was increasing; so much so in London that two new ecclesias were formed, leaving about 200 in the older ecclesia at Islington. [1961, Bryan R[onald] Wilson, “The History of Christadelphianism”, in Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain (Heinemann Books on Sociology), London: William Heinemann Ltd, →OCLC, part III (The Christadelphians), page 247:]
Nouns inflected like ecclesia
serosa,
situla,
ecclesia,
synapticula,
condensed formula,
melopoeia,
pfennig,
failed supernova,
subcosta,
mycoflora,
zonula,
noctiluca,
anurofauna,
veillonella,
dalmatica,
bosenova,
ectomycorrhiza,
microfauna,
lymphoglandula,
un-nova, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἐκκλησία'.