catechesis

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēsis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).

Noun

catechesis (countable and uncountable, plural catecheses)

1. Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.

Related terms

• catechism
• catechetics
• catechist
• catechumen

Translations

religious instruction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 教理講授／教理讲授 (jiàolǐ jiǎngshòu)

• Dutch: catechese (nl) f
• Esperanto: kateĥizo, katekizo
• French: catéchèse (fr) f
• Galician: catequese (gl) f
• German: Katechese (de) f
• Hungarian: katekézis (hu)
• Indonesian: katekese (id)
• Polish: katecheza (pl) f
• Portuguese: catequese (pt) f
• Romanian: cateheză (ro) f
• Russian: катехи́зис (ru) m (katɛxízis)
• Spanish: catequesis f
• Swahili: katekesi
• Tagalog: katekesis

Anagrams

• catechises

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from Ancient Greek κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.teːˈkʰeː.sis/, [kät̪eːˈkʰeːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.teˈke.sis/, [kät̪eˈkɛːs̬is]

Noun

catēchēsis f (genitive catēchēsis or catēchēseōs or catēchēsios); third declension

1. catechesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	catēchēsis	catēchēsēs catēchēseis
Genitive	catēchēsis catēchēseōs catēchēsios	catēchēsium
Dative	catēchēsī	catēchēsibus
Accusative	catēchēsim catēchēsin catēchēsem1	catēchēsēs catēchēsīs
Ablative	catēchēsī catēchēse1	catēchēsibus
Vocative	catēchēsis catēchēsi	catēchēsēs catēchēseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• Catalan: catequesi
• Galician: catequese
• French: catéchèse
  • Romanian: cateheză
• Italian: catechesi
• Portuguese: catequese
• Spanish: catequesis

References

• “catechesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catechesis 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)
• catechesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.