transubstantiation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.

Noun

transubstantiation (countable and uncountable, plural transubstantiations)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
   • 2020 July 6, Helen Lewis, “How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     I was openly dismissive about transubstantiation, by which the host is consecrated, and according to Catholic doctrine, literally turns from mere bread into the body of Christ. “But all the atoms stay the same!” I would insist. “That makes no sense!”

2. (by extension) Conversion of one substance into another.

Related terms

• transubstantial
• transubstantiate

Translations

Roman Catholic dogma

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實體轉變／实体转变 (shítǐ zhuǎnbiàn)

• Finnish: transsubstantiaatio
• French: transsubstantiation (fr) f
• Galician: transubstanciación (gl) f
• German: Transsubstantiation (de) f
• Hungarian: transzszubsztanciáció (hu), átlényegülés (hu)
• Icelandic: eðlisbreyting f, gjörbreyting f, eðlisbreytingarkenningin f
• Indonesian: transubstansiasi
• Italian: transustanziazione (it) f
• Japanese: 聖変化 (せいへんか, seihenka)
• Korean: 성변화 (seongbyeonhwa)
• Latin: trānsubstantiātiō f
• Macedonian: пресуштествување n (presuštestvuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transsubstansiasjon m

• Polish: transsubstancjacja (pl) f, przeistoczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: transubstanciação (pt) f
• Romanian: transsubstianțiere f, transsubstianțiațiune f
• Russian: пресуществле́ние (ru) n (presuščestvlénije)
• Spanish: transubstanciación (es) f
• Turkish: özgeriş, transübsitasyon
• Ukrainian: переісто́чення n (pereistóčennja), переосутнення n (pereosutnennja), преосуществління (preosuščestvlinnja), транссубстанціація f (transsubstanciacija)

conversion of one substance into another

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 實體變換／实体变换 (shítǐ biànhuà), 變質／变质 (zh) (biànzhì), 物質的改變／物质的改变 (wùzhì de gǎibiàn)

• Finnish: muuntuminen (fi)
• Galician: transubstanciación (gl) f
• German: Wesensverwandlung f
• Greek: μετουσίωση (el) f (metousíosi)
• Hungarian: átváltozás (hu), átváltoztatás (hu)
• Icelandic: ummyndun f, myndbreyting f
• Indonesian: transubstansiasi
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: trānsmūtātiō f
• Macedonian: пресуштествување n (presuštestvuvanje)
• Malay: transubstansi
• Maori: whakaahuakētanga
• Romanian: transsubstanțiere (ro) f, transsubstanțiație
• Russian: пресуществление (ru) (presuščestvlenije)
• Spanish: transubstanciación (es) f
• Turkish: özgeriş, transübsitasyon

See also

• stercoranism

Further reading

• transubstantiation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia