From: alex
Message: 23212
Date: 2003-06-14
>no. ther word is inexistent at all. If this should have been it should
> *****GK: Agreed. And thanks for the clarifications.
> But this raises an even more significant issue. As you
> have just said, and you are quite right, "ecclesia" in
> Christian parlance did mean "congregatio fidelium". It
> is so used in the Gospels and in the Epistles. And
> that meaning of the word does exist in most other
> Romance languages (at least the major ones: I'm not
> sure about the smaller ones you've mentioned.)
> Question: does Romanian have this word in the earlier
> sense?******