laïcité

English

Alternative forms

laicity

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French laïcité.

Noun

laïcité (usually uncountable, plural laïcités)

Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.

Further reading

Secularism in France on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From laïc +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /la.i.si.te/
Audio (file)

Noun

laïcité f (plural laïcités)

secularity (state of being secular)
- 1747, M. le P. Cochet de Saint-Valier, Traité de l'indult du parlement de Paris‎, volume 3, page 186:
  La qualité de laïc & d’ecclésiastique est étrangere à la procuration [...]. Ainsi la laïcité n’est point un défaut à opposer au procureur...
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
secularism

Related terms

Descendants

→ Albanian: laicitet
→ Catalan: laïcitat
→ Dutch: laïciteit
→ English: laicity
→ German: Laizität
→ Indonesian: laisitas
→ Italian: laicità
→ Occitan: laïcitat
→ Portuguese: laicidade
→ Romanian: laicitate
→ Spanish: laicidad

Further reading

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

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.