catechesis

Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēsis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).

catechesis (countable and uncountable, plural catecheses)

1. Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.

• catechism
• catechetics
• catechist
• catechumen

• catechises

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from Ancient Greek κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.teːˈkʰeː.sis/, [kät̪eːˈkʰeːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.teˈke.sis/, [kät̪eˈkɛːs̬is]

catēchēsis f (genitive catēchēsis or catēchēseōs or catēchēsios); third declension

1. catechesis

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• “catechesis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catechesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• catechesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.