Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
Names of the Albanians and Albania Names of the Albanians and Albania The Albanians () and their country Albania ("Shqipëria") have been identified by many ethnonyms. The native endonym is Shqiptar. The name "Albanians" (Byzantine Greek: "Albanoi/Arbanitai/Albanites"; Latin: "Albanenses/Arbanenses") was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. Linguists believe that the "alb" part in the root word originates from an Indo-European term for a type of mountainous topography, meaning "hill, mountain", also present in "Alps". Through the root word "alban" and its rhotacized equivalents "arban", "albar", and "arbar", the term in Albanian became rendered