pre-Christian

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ Christian

Adjective

pre-Christian (not comparable)

Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.
pre-Christian and pre-Abrahamic traditions

Related terms

pre-Abrahamic

Translations

before the arrival of Christianity

Catalan: precristià
Danish: førkristen
Finnish: esikristillinen
French: préchrétien (fr)
Galician: precristián m
German: vorchristlich (de)
Icelandic: forkristinn

Irish: réamh-Chríostaí
Italian: precristiano
Norwegian:
Bokmål: førkristen

Nynorsk: førkristen
Russian: дохристиа́нский (ru) (doxristiánskij)
Swedish: förkristen (sv)

Noun

pre-Christian (plural pre-Christians)

(Christianity) A person who is not yet a Christian, regarded as a potential convert.

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