baptist

From Middle English baptist, baptiste, borrowed from Old French baptiste, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæptɪst/

baptist (plural baptists)

1. A person who baptizes

• Baptist

• batspit

• IPA^(key): /bɑpˈtɪst/
• Hyphenation: bap‧tist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Borrowed from English Baptist.

baptist m (plural baptisten)

1. (Christianity) Baptist (Protestant denomination practicing adult baptism, of English origin) [from 17th c.]

• Note that baptist is not synonymous with anabaptist or doopsgezinde.

• baptistisch

• baptisme

From Middle Dutch baptiste.

baptist m (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, Christianity) baptiser; epithet of John the Baptist.

   Synonym: baptista

From Old French baptiste, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).

• baptiste, baptyste, babtis, babtiste

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaptist(ə)/

baptist

1. A baptist (one who performs a baptism)
2. John the Baptist.

• bapteme
• baptisen
• baptistery
• baptizyng

• English: baptist, Baptist
• Scots: baptist, Baptist

• “baptist (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

From Old French bapteme.

baptist

1. Alternative form of bapteme

baptist m (definite singular baptisten, indefinite plural baptister, definite plural baptistene)

1. a Baptist

baptist m (definite singular baptisten, indefinite plural baptistar, definite plural baptistane)

1. a Baptist