Fifth Lateran Council
- proper noun
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Quinto Concilio de Letrán
- The Fifth Lateran Council issued important decrees on church reform in the early 16th century.
Examples
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One major topic at the Fifth Lateran Council was the organization of a crusade against the Ottoman Turks.
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Historians often debate the long-term impact of the Fifth Lateran Council on the Catholic Reformation.
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The Fifth Lateran Council addressed important issues in the Catholic Church.
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Did the Fifth Lateran Council lead to significant reforms?
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One major topic at the Fifth Lateran Council was the organization of a crusade against the Ottoman Turks.
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The Fifth Lateran Council issued important decrees on church reform in the early 16th century.
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Historians often debate the long-term impact of the Fifth Lateran Council on the Catholic Reformation.
Synonyms
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A major meeting of Catholic church leaders in Rome between the 1100s and 1500s
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A formal meeting of church leaders from across the Christian world to decide religious beliefs and rules
Surface Forms
Morphology
The label is largely compositional: 'fifth' (ordinal) + 'Lateran' (place name) + 'council' (assembly) allows a learner to infer it refers to the fifth council held at the Lateran — a pattern of naming councils is cross-linguistically common. However, the specific historical status, dates and reforms (and the proper-name 'Lateran') are background knowledge beyond the constituent meanings, so the full, precise sense is not predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Fifth Lateran Council got its name because it was the fifth large church council held at the Lateran palace in Rome. The word Fifth shows its order, Lateran names the place, and the 'meeting' was where Roman Catholic leaders made 'rules' and plans between 1512 and 1517, so the name refers to that important gathering.