koinonia
/kɔɪˈnəʊnɪə/noun
koinonia is a noun meaning “Communion by intimate participation, associated with the Christian church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-I-N-O-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of koinonia is koinonias.
What does koinonia mean?
noun
- 1
Communion by intimate participation, associated with the Christian church.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce koinonia?
- /kɔɪˈnəʊnɪə/
- /ˌkɔɪnoʊˈniə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of koinonia
- koinonias plural
- koenonia
- coenonia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is koinonia?
Koinonia appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does koinonia come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινωνία (koinōnía, “community, communion”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).