Wicca

See also:wicca

English

Etymology

A twentieth-century borrowing ofOld Englishwiċċa(“malewitch”),fromProto-West Germanic*wikkō(“sorcerer”);mispronounced as/ˈwɪkə/instead of the correct/ˈwit.t͡ʃɑ/.The modern use of the term was introduced first asWica,mentioned briefly in chapter 10 of Gerald Gardner's bookWitchcraft Today(1954), as a collective noun ( "the Wica" ), allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft. The spellingWicca,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. Aneopaganreligionthat was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by EnglishmanGerald Gardner,involving the worship of a horned malegodand a moongoddess,the observance of eightSabbats,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:Uy tạp giáo(wai¹kaa¹gaau³)

  Mandarin:Uy tạp giáo(Wēikǎjiào)

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