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
Terminology of the British Isles Isles. They are divided into two branches: Some of the above are: The English word "Welsh" is from a common Germanic root meaning "Romanised foreigner" (cognate with Wallonia and Wallachia, and also cognate with the word used in Mediaeval German to refer to the French and Italians). The English names "Albion" and "Albany" are related to "Alba" and used poetically for either England or Scotland, or the whole island of Great Britain. English "Erin" is a poetic name for Ireland derived from "Éire" (or rather, from its dative form "Éirinn"). In Irish, the term "Oileáin Bhriotanacha" is a translation of