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laicity
Laicity comes from French laïcité ‘secularity’, from Ecclesiastical Latin laicus ‘lay’, and ultimately from Ancient Greek λᾱός ‘people’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλᾱόςlāós‘people’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλᾱῐ̈κόςlāĭ̈kós‘common’
- Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500laicus‘lay’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlaïc‘secular, lay, laic’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentlaïcité‘secularity’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949laicity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEλᾱόςlāós‘people’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEλᾱῐ̈κόςlāĭ̈kós‘common’
- Ecclesiastical Latinc. 200–1500laicus‘lay’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlaïc‘secular, lay, laic’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentlaïcité‘secularity’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949laicity
Earliest quotation: 1949, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in : “A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied…”
Equivalent to laic + -ity
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- ‘military action’
through Proto-Hellenic *lāwós ‘people, crowd’
through Ancient Greek λᾱός ‘people’
through Ancient Greek λᾱῐ̈κός ‘common’
through Ecclesiastical Latin laicus ‘lay’
Today it means
noun The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek λᾱός / laicity