. "The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek \u03B2\u03B1\u03C3\u03B9\u03BB\u03B9\u03BA\u1F74 \u03C3\u03C4\u03BF\u03AC, Royal Stoa, the tribunal chamber of a king) has three distinct applications in modern English. The word was originally used to describe an open, Roman, public court building, usually located adjacent to the forum of a Roman town. By extension it was applied to Christian buildings of the same form and continues to be used in an architectural sense to describe those buildings with a central nave and aisles."@en . . .