English words from Ecclesiastical Latin
- superintendentA person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- albaA type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
- incarnateEmbodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
- feriaA weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
- ammamother
- novenaA recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days, especially one to a saint to ask for their intercession.
- gehennaIn rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.
- BenedictusThe Gospel canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68–79), with the incipit Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”).
- jubilateTo show elation or triumph; to rejoice.
- superintendTo oversee the work of others; to supervise.
- excommunicateTo officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
- exarchIn the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
- sinecureA position that requires little to no work, or easy work, but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
- hypostasisA sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
- discalcedPertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
- temporaleA cycle of texts to be read or chanted at liturgical services on particular weeks and movable feasts throughout the year; a book that contains this cycle.
- accensorOne of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
- aspergillumAn implement, in the form of a brush or of a rod with a perforated container, for sprinkling holy water; a holy-water sprinkle.
- cardinalateThe dignity and ecclesiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
- colorumA rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism.
- contemptus mundiContempt for worldly concerns or secular life.
- conversusA lay brother.
- diplomaticsThe science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
- enhypostasiaThe state of the human nature of Jesus Christ being entirely dependent on, and not existing independently of, the divine nature of God as a whole (which is the hypostasis of the Holy Trinity comprising God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit), or individual persons of the Trinity such as the Father and the Holy Spirit.
- habemus papamUsed by the Vatican to announce the election of a new Pope.
- in excelsisTo the highest degree; archetypal, quintessential.
- in partibus infideliumOf a bishop or see: merely titular, without regular jurisdiction, and serving to assist some other bishop or to act as delegates of the pope where no hierarchy had yet been established.
- IntroiboThe prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.
- MemorareA prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”
- mysteriarchOne who rules over mysteries.
- Novus OrdoThe version of the Roman Rite of the Mass established in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI, usually celebrated in a vernacular language.
- oculateIPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /ˈɒkjʊlət/
- postcommunionThe concluding portion of the communion service.
- Quicunque vultThe Athanasian Creed.
- QuinisextDescribing a council convoked by the emperor Justinian II at Constantinople in 692, also known as the Council in Trullo; of or pertaining to this council.
- sacramentaryAn ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.
- SarabaiteA class of monk in Catholic belief who dwelt in his own home, or in or near a city.
- TersanctusThe Trisagion (beginning “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal …”).