384: cathedral Dec 27, 2015

Words ending with 'al' tend to be adjectives or nouns expressing verbal ideas. 'Cathedral'–it would seem–is an exception, but this is not quite the case. In Middle English the adjective, as part of a phrase, 'cathedral church'. The word comes from Latin, 'cathedra' meaning ‘seat,’ ultimately from the Greek 'kathedra'. The cathedral is called such because within there is the bishop's throne’.