dioecesis

Latin

Alternative forms

• diocēsis (Late Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διοίκησις (dioíkēsis, “internal administration”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.oe̯ˈkeː.sis/, [d̪ioe̯ˈkeːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.eˈt͡ʃe.sis/, [d̪ieˈt͡ʃɛːs̬is]

Noun

dioecēsis f (genitive dioecēsis or dioecēseōs or dioecēsios); third declension

1. diocese
   • c. 1590, Abraham Ortelius, Islandia (map):

     His notis diſtinguitur limes inter vtramq; dioeceſim.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third declension noun (Greek type, i-stem, with some consonant-stem forms).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dioecēsis	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies
Genitive	dioecēsis dioecēseōs dioecēsios	dioecēseōn dioecēsiōn dioecēsium
Dative	dioecēsī dioecēsei	dioecēsibus dioecēsesi
Accusative	dioecēsim dioecēsin dioecēsem1	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsīs dioecēsias
Ablative	dioecēsī dioecēsei	dioecēsibus dioecēsesi
Vocative	dioecēsis dioecēsi	dioecēsēs dioecēseis dioecēsies

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• In older New Latin the genitive is also spelled with the Greek letter omega as dioecēseωs in the singular and dioecēseωn in the plural.

Descendants

• → Aragonese: diocesi
• → Belarusian: дыяцэ́зія (dyjacézija)
• → Catalan: diòcesi
• → Czech: diecéze
• → Dutch: diocees, diocese
• → Finnish: diokeesi
• → Galician: diocese
• → German: Diözese
• → Irish: deoise
• → Italian: diocesi
• → Latvian: diecēzē
• → Old French: diocese
  • → English: diocese
  • French: diocèse
  • Norman: dgiocèse, diocèse
• → Polish: diecezja
  • → Ukrainian: дієце́зія (dijecézija)
• → Portuguese: diocese
• → Romanian: dioceză
• → Russian: диоце́з (diocéz)
• → Serbo-Croatian: дијецеза (dijeceza)
• → Sicilian: diòcisi
• → Slovak: diecéza
• → Slovene: dieceza
• → Spanish: diócesis
  • → Tagalog: diyósesis
• → Ukrainian: діоце́з (diocéz)

References

• “dioecesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dĭœcēsis, is, f.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• is, f. dĭœcēsis, is, f. in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 531.
• DIŒCESIS 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)
• “dioecēsis” on page 546/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)