iglesia

• yglesia, ygrecia, ylecia (obsolete or variant spellings)

Borrowed from Spanish iglesia (“church”), ultimately from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): [i.leːˈsí.jaʔ]

iglesia (inanimate, plural iglesia)

1. (colonial, Christianity) (it is) a church.

iglesia (inanimate)

1. (colonial) (it is) the Roman Catholic Church.

• in santa iglesia

Borrowed from Spanish iglesia.

iglesia

1. church

From Old Spanish (9th century), a semi-learned descendant of Vulgar Latin eclesia, from Latin ecclēsia, fom Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”)[1]. Cognate with Galician igrexa, Portuguese igreja, Catalan església, Occitan glèisa, French église and Italian chiesa.

• IPA^(key): /iˈɡlesja/, [iˈɣlesja]

iglesia f (plural iglesias)

1. (Christianity) church

• eclesiástico

• Chavacano: iglesya
• Palenquero: ilesia
• → Papiamentu: iglesia
• → Tagalog: iglesia

• “iglesia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.