congregation

• n. 集合; 集会

congregate（集まる）から。

congregation

congregation: [14] Etymologically, a church’s congregation is comparable to a pastor’s flock. The word comes from Latin congregātiō, a noun derivative of congregāre ‘flock together’. This was a compound verb formed from the collective prefix com- and grex ‘flock, herd’ (source of English egregious and gregarious). Congregation was thus originally simply a ‘meeting, assembly’; its religious connotations arose from its frequent use in the 1611 translation of the Bible to render ‘solemn public assembly’. The verb congregate was independently borrowed in the 15th century.
=> aggregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate

congregation (n.)

mid-14c., "a gathering, assembly," from Old French congregacion (12c., Modern French congrégation), from Latin congregationem (nominative congregatio), noun of action from congregare (see congregate).

Used by Tyndale to translate Greek ekklesia in New Testament and by some Old Testament translators in place of synagoge. (Vulgate uses a variety of words in these cases, including congregatio but also ecclesia, vulgus, synagoga, populus.) Protestant reformers in 16c. used it in place of church; hence the word's main modern sense of "local society of believers" (1520s).

1. The congregation fell back from them slightly as they entered.

教会の会衆は彼らが入ってきたとき少し後ろに下がった。

2.Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.

礼拝式が始まる数分前、大部分の教会会衆が続々と訪れた。

3.The congregation stood to sing the hymn.

会衆は立ち上がって聖歌を歌う。

4.She preached to the congregation about forgiveness.

彼女は許しの道理を会衆に説いた。

5.The preacher addressed a congregation of more than one thousand people.

宣教師は千人以上の会衆に講演した。