excommunication

See also: ex-communication

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin excommūnicātiō.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Synonyms

disfellowshipment

Translations

act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting

Armenian: բանադրանք (hy) (banadrankʿ), նզովք (hy) (nzovkʿ)
Bulgarian: отлъчване от църквата (otlǎčvane ot cǎrkvata)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逐出教會, 逐出教会 (zhú chū jiàohuì)
Czech: exkomunikace (cs) f, vyobcování
Danish: bandlysning c
Dutch: excommunicatie (nl) f
Estonian: ekskommunikatsioon
Finnish: ekskommunikaatio (fi)
French: excommunication (fr) f
German: Exkommunikation (de) f
Greek: αφορισμός (el) m (aforismós), απαγόρευση (el) f (apagórefsi)
Ancient: ἀφορισμός m (aphorismós)
Hebrew: חרם \ חֵרֶם‎ (he) m (khérem), נידוי \ נִדּוּי‎ m (nidúy)
Icelandic: bannfæring f
Irish: coinnealbhá m

Italian: scomunica (it) f
Japanese: 破門 (はもん hamon), 除名 (ja) (じょめい, jomei)
Korean: 파문 (ko) (pamun)
Latin: excommūnicātiō f (Late Latin), excommūniō f (Mediaeval Latin)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing m or f, bannlysning m or f

Nynorsk: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing f
Polish: ekskomunika (pl) f
Portuguese: excomunhão f
Romanian: excomunicare (ro) f
Russian: отлуче́ние (ru) n (otlučénije)
Serbo-Croatian: ekskomunikácija (sh) f
Spanish: excomunión (es) f, descomunión
Swedish: exkommunikation (sv) c, bannlysning (sv) c
Tagalog: ekskomunyon
Yiddish: חרם‎ m (kheyrem)

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from the Late Latin excommūnicātiō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

excommunication f (plural excommunications)

excommunication

References

“excommunication” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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