basilica

Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐκή (basilikḗ), from βᾰσῐλῐκὴ στοά (basilikḕ stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈsɪlɪkə/

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basilica (plural basilicas or basilicae)

1. (architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
2. A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
3. (obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaːˈzi.li.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧si‧li‧ca

basilica f (plural basilica's, diminutive basilicaatje n)

1. basilica

• basiliek

• basilicum

Probably a borrowing from (Medieval) Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ).

• IPA^(key): /baˈzi.li.ka/
• Rhymes: -ilika
• Hyphenation: ba‧sì‧li‧ca

basilica f (plural basiliche)

1. basilica
2. church

• basilicale

• chiesa
• santuario

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βασιλική (basilikḗ), from βασιλικὴ στοά/οἰκία (basilikḕ stoá/oikía, “royal hall”), from βασιλικός (basilikós, “regal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Compare with rēgia and see also palatium, aula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baˈsi.li.ka/, [bäˈs̠ɪlʲɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈsi.li.ka/, [bäˈs̬iːlikä]

basilica f (genitive basilicae); first declension

1. basilica
2. church (medieval, Eastern Orthodox)
3. oblong hall with colonnade as a court of law/exchange

First-declension noun.

Borrowings:

• “basilica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “basilica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• basilica 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)
• basilica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “basilica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “basilica”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “basilica”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “basilica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin