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classis

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin classis. Doublet of class.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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classis (plural classes)

  1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; type; kind.
  2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Dutch Reformed Church. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
    • 1982, Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism:
      At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis.
  3. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.
    Synonym: class

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin classis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈklɑ.sɪs/
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  • Hyphenation: clas‧sis

Noun

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classis f (plural classes)

  1. (Protestantism) a supracongregational, regional executive body, intermediate in size or rank between the consistory of an individual congregation and a provincial synod
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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: klasis

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *klāssis, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₁-d⁽ʰ⁾-ti- (“a call”), from *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”).[1] Cognate with Latin calō, clāmō, clārus, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō).

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Noun

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classis f (genitive classis); third declension

  1. any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry
  2. the armed forces
  3. fleet
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.517–518:
      quae fortūna virīs, classem quō lītore linquant,
      quid veniant [...]
      What [has] fortune [granted] to the men? On which shore did they moor the fleet? Why are they coming here?
      (Aeneas and Achates ponder a series of indirect questions.)
  4. a group, rank, or class
    Synonyms: ōrdō, gradus, sors
  5. a class (of students)

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

singular plural
nominative classis classēs
genitive classis classium
dative classī classibus
accusative classem classēs
classīs
ablative classe
classī 		classibus
vocative classis classēs

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “classis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118

Further reading

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  • “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “classis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • classis 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)
  • classis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to spend money: pecuniam erogare (in classem)
    • to build a ship, a fleet: navem, classem aedificare, facere, efficere, instituere
    • to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere
    • to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
    • to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
    • the fleets charge: classes concurrunt (Liv. 26. 39)
  • classis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “classis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
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