excommunication
/ˌekskəˌmjuːnəˈkeɪʃən/ek-skuh-myoo-nuh-KAY-shuhn
/ˌɛkskəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃən/ek-skuh-myoo-nuh-KAY-shuhn
Meaningthe act of excommunicating
Common meaning: cutting off from a church
- exout
- communheld in common, shared by allLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 383 · scan
- icadjective ending: relating to
- atverb or adjective ending: to make, having
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘out’ + ‘held in common, shared by all’ → excommunication
Journey through time
- Latinexcommunicare‘to put out of a community’source
- Englishexcommunicate‘to shut someone out of a church’s rites’
- Englishformed in English from excommunicateexcommunication‘cutting off from a church’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from excommunicate + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), EXCOMMUNICATE, p.198 · scan
Roots
- commūnis (from mūnus) Latin “held in common, shared by all”
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