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”).

• (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, a 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).

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”). Confer with rēgia and see also palatium, aula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baˈsi.li.ka/, [baˈsɪ.lɪ.ka]

basilica f (genitive basilicae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• 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, 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 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