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It ultimately stems from a Greek root word, κυριακον (kuriakos), meaning (roughly) "Lord's place".
There are cognate forms in many European languages, including the German Kirche, the Swedish kyrka, the Norwegian kirka, the Italian chiesa, amongst others. In many place names in the UK, the element kirk refers to the site of a church (for example, Ormskirk).
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O.E. cirice "church," from W.Gmc. *kirika, from Gk. kyriake (oikia) "Lord's (house)," from kyrios "ruler, lord." For vowel evolution, see bury. Gk. kyriakon (adj.) "of the Lord" was used of houses of Christian worship since c.300, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ekklesia or basilike. An example of the direct Gk.-to-Gmc. progress of many Christian words, via the Goths; it was probably used by W.Gmc. people in their pre-Christian period. Also picked up by Slavic, via Gmc. (cf. O.Slav. criky, Rus. cerkov). Romance and Celtic languages use variants of L. ecclesia. Slang church key for "can or bottle opener" is from 1950s. Church-mouse, proverbial in many languages for its poverty, is 1731 in Eng.
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