Wicca

See also: wicca

English

Etymology

A twentieth-century borrowing of Old English wiċċa (“male witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“sorcerer”); mispronounced as /ˈwɪkə/ instead of the correct /ˈwit.t͡ʃɑ/. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica, mentioned briefly in chapter 10 of Gerald Gardner's book Witchcraft Today (1954), as a collective noun ("the Wica"), allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft. The spelling Wicca, again as a collective noun, was introduced and popularized by Gerald Gardner's later book, The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkə/
• Rhymes: -ɪkə
• Homophone: wicker (non-rhotic)

Proper noun

Wicca

1. A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.

Hyponyms

• Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Celtic Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Eclectic Wicca, Faery Wicca, Odyssean Wicca, Reclaiming Wicca, Seax-Wicca, Trojan Wicca

Coordinate terms

• (religions) religion; agnosticism,‎ Asatru,‎ atheism,‎ Ayyavazhi,‎ Baháʼí Faith,‎ Bon,‎ Buddhism,‎ Cao Dai,‎ Cheondoism,‎ Christianity,‎ deism,‎ Druidry,‎ Druze,‎ Eckankar,‎ Heathenry,‎ Hinduism,‎ Islam,‎ Jainism,‎ Jediism,‎ Judaism,‎ Kimbanguism,‎ Odinism,‎ paganism,‎ Pastafarianism,‎ Raëlism,‎ Rastafarianism,‎ Rodnovery,‎ Romuva,‎ Samaritanism,‎ Sanamahism,‎ Shinto,‎ Sikhism,‎ Taoism,‎ Tengrism,‎ Thelema,‎ Unitarian Universalism,‎ Wicca,‎ Yahwism,‎ Yazidism,‎ Yoruba,‎ Zoroastrianism ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• Wiccan, Wiccanism, Wiccanist
• Wiccanize, Wiccanizing
• Wiccaphobia, wiccaphobe

Translations

neo-pagan religion

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 威卡教 (wai¹ kaa¹ gaau³)

  Mandarin: 威卡教 (Wēikǎjiào)

• Esperanto: Viko, viĉo
• Finnish: wicca
• French: wicca (fr) f
• German: Wicca (de) n
• Greek: Γουίκα f (Gouíka)
• Hungarian: wicca (hu)
• Irish: Wicca
• Japanese: ウィッカ (wikka)
• Korean: 위카 (wika)
• Lithuanian: Wicca f
• Marathi: विका (vikā)
• Polish: wicca f
• Portuguese: wicca (pt) f
• Russian: ви́кка f (víkka)
• Spanish: wicca f, brujería (es) f, hechicería f, magia (es) f
• Swedish: wicca (sv)
• Turkish: Vika
• Urdu: ویکا f (vīkā)
• Welsh: Wica (cy) f