noun
păroecĭa
Meaning
- an ecclesiastical district
păroecĭa, and, corrupted, părŏchĭa, ae, f., = παροικία,
I. an ecclesiastical district, a parish:
castellum ad paroeciam Hipponensis Ecclesiae pertinebat, Aug. Ep. 261; Hier. Ep. 51, n. 2: nulla in desolatis cura dioecesibus parochiisque, Sid. Ep. 7, 6 med.: tot enim Cyrus habet paroecias, Ep. Leon. 52, 4.—II. Transf., the place of jurisdiction of a parish:
per rusticas solitudo paroecias, Sid. Ep. 7, 6 (al. parochias).In English words that came into English from păroecĭa
- parochialparochialis