meschita

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

Noun

meschīta f (genitive meschītae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) mosque
    • 1591, Leunclavius, Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII‎[1], column 195:
      Condidit secundum haec Urchan Nicaeae magnam quamdam meschitam sive templum, in quo sui die Veneris hebdomadarium, Muhametano ritu, festum celebrarent.
      Accordingly Orhan built a certain great mosque or temple in Nicaea, in which his people were to celebrate a weekly feast on Friday in the Mohammedan rite.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative meschīta meschītae
genitive meschītae meschītārum
dative meschītae meschītīs
accusative meschītam meschītās
ablative meschītā meschītīs
vocative meschīta meschītae

Descendants

  • Spanish: mezquita
    • → Italian: moschea
      • → French: mosquée
        • Haitian Creole: moske
        • → English: mosque
        • → German: Moschee
        • → Malagasy: moske
        • → Romanian: moschee
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
        • → Danish: moské or moske
  • Portuguese: mesquita

References

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