excommunication

See also: ex-communication

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin excommūnicātiō. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

1. 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.

   Synonym: (obsolete) excommunion

Synonyms

• disfellowshipment

Translations

act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting

• Arabic: حِرْمَان كَنَسِيّ m (ḥirmān kanasiyy)
• Armenian: բանադրանք (hy) (banadrankʻ), նզովք (hy) (nzovkʻ)
• Belarusian: адлучэ́нне n (adlučénnje) (ад царквы́)
• Bulgarian: отлъ́чване (bg) n (otlǎ́čvane) (от цъ́рквата)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逐出教會／逐出教会 (zhú chū jiàohuì), 絕罰／绝罚 (zh) (juéfá)

• Czech: exkomunikace (cs) f, vyobcování (cs) n
• Danish: bandlysning c
• Dutch: excommunicatie (nl) f
• Estonian: ekskommunikatsioon
• Finnish: ekskommunikaatio (fi)
• French: excommunication (fr) f
• Galician: excomuñón (gl) 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)
• Hungarian: kiközösítés (hu)
• Icelandic: bannfæring f
• Indonesian: ekskomunikasi (id)
• Irish: coinnealbhá m
• Italian: scomunica (it) f
• Japanese: 破門 (ja) (はもん hamon), 除名 (ja) (じょめい, jomei)
• Korean: 파문(破門) (ko) (pamun)
• Latin: excommūnicātiō f (Late Latin), excommūniō f (Mediaeval Latin)
• Macedonian: изопштување n (izopštuvanje), екскомуникација f (ekskomunikacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing m or f, bannlysning m or f

  Nynorsk: ekskommunikasjon m, bannlysing f

• Old English: āmǣnsumung f
• Plautdietsch: Baun m
• Polish: ekskomunika (pl) f
• Portuguese: excomunhão (pt) f
• Romanian: excomunicare (ro) f, afurisenie (ro) f
• Russian: отлуче́ние (ru) n (otlučénije) (от це́ркви)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екскомуника́ција f, изопштење n

  Roman: ekskomunikácija (sh) f, izopštenje (sh) n

• Slovak: exkomunikácia f
• Slovene: ekskomunikacija f
• Spanish: excomunión (es) f, descomunión
• Swedish: exkommunikation (sv) c, bannlysning (sv) c
• Tagalog: ekskomunyon
• Uyghur: відлу́чення n (від це́ркви)
• Yiddish: חרם m (kheyrem)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from the Late Latin excommūnicātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

excommunication f (plural excommunications)

1. excommunication

References

• “excommunication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia