Second Lateran Council

9.9

An important meeting of church leaders in Rome in 1139 that made changes to church rules

proper noun

: Segundo Concilio de Letrán

At the Second Lateran Council in 1139, the Church outlawed certain practices among the clergy.

Examples

The Second Lateran Council enacted reforms that significantly influenced the structure of the medieval Church.
Historians often cite the decisions of the Second Lateran Council as pivotal in addressing heresies of the time.
The Second Lateran Council was a significant event in church history.
At the Second Lateran Council, many reforms were proposed.
At the Second Lateran Council in 1139, the Church outlawed certain practices among the clergy.
Historians often cite the decisions of the Second Lateran Council as pivotal in addressing heresies of the time.
The Second Lateran Council enacted reforms that significantly influenced the structure of the medieval Church.

Surface Forms

Second Lateran Council main

Morphology

2nd + Lateran + council

The phrase is a straightforward name composed of an ordinal ('2nd') + a place name ('Lateran') + 'council' (an ecclesiastical assembly), so its basic meaning — the second council held at the Lateran — is directly inferable from the constituents. This compositional naming pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can understand the referent even if they lack detailed historical knowledge.

Etymology

Second Lateran Council comes from the fact that it was the second big church council held at the Lateran palace in Rome. The word Second shows it was the second 'meeting' and Lateran names the 'place', so the name now means the 1139 church meeting that made important rules and said some ideas were wrong.