Plural of gleba; multiple portions of ecclesiastical land attached to churches or parishes.
Latin plural form of 'gleba,' maintaining the classical Latin ending '-ae' in formal or technical ecclesiastical English contexts.
Using the Latin plural 'glebae' instead of 'glebas' shows how the English church preserved formal Latin terminology for centuries—a linguistic fossil from when Latin was Christianity's administrative language.
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