cathedral=كاتدرائية

cathedral=كاتدرائية

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

cathedral (n.)

1580s, "church of a bishop," from phrase cathedral church (c.1300), translating Late Latin ecclesia cathedralis "church of a bishop's seat;" with adjectival suffix -al (1), from Latin cathedra "an easy chair (principally used by ladies)," also metonymically, e.g. cathedrae molles "luxurious women;" also "a professor's chair;" from Greek kathedra "seat, bench," from kata "down" (see cata-) + hedra "seat, base, chair, face of a geometric solid," from PIE root *sed- "to sit" (see sedentary).