diocese的词源

英文词源

diocese: diocese: [14] Etymologically, diocese means ‘administration’, and only gradually did the word become more concrete and specific, via ‘area administered, province’ to ‘ecclesiastical province’. It comes ultimately from Greek dioíkēsis, a derivative of dioikein ‘keep house’, hence ‘administer’; this was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dia- and oikein ‘inhabit’, which in turn was a derivative of oikos ‘house’ (a distant relative of the -wich, -wick ending in some British place-names).

Its ecclesiastical meaning developed in Greek, and came to the fore as the word passed via Latin dioecēsis and late Latin diocēsis into Old French diocise (source of English diocese). In English that has always been the only living sense of the word, although it has been used in historical contexts to refer to provinces of the Roman empire.
diocese (n.): early 14c., from Old French diocese (13c., Modern French diocèse), from Late Latin diocesis "a governor's jurisdiction," later, "a bishop's jurisdiction," from Greek dioikesis "government, administration; province," originally "economy, housekeeping," from dioikein "control, govern, administer, manage a house," from dia- "thoroughly" (see dia-) + oikos "house" (see villa).

来自希腊语dioikesis, 管理，dia-,穿过，整个的，oikos, 家，屋子，词源同villa, economy. 即一家之主，用于指主教辖区。

来自oikos，PIE*weik“聚居区，宗族，家族”的衍生词：

villa：别墅。来自拉丁语vicus, 村庄，聚居区。

villain：村民，恶棍，流氓。

vicinity：街区。

oikos：家，屋子，聚居区。

ecology：生态学。

economy：经济学。

ecumenical：基督教宗教合一的，一般的，普通的。

Greenwich：绿色村庄，格陵尼治天文台。

Sandwich：沙村，沙堡，三明治。

diocese：主教教区，来自希腊语dioikesis,来自dia-,穿过，oikos,屋子，聚居区。

parochial：来自拉丁语parochia, 来自希腊语paroikos,来自para-, 在周围，oikos, 屋子，聚居区。

parish：教区，堂区，行政小区，来自拉丁语parochia,教区，堂区。

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