πρεσβύτερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

πρέσβῠς (présbus, aged”, “elder) + -τερος (-teros, suffix forming comparative degrees of adjectives). The Christian religious meanings are likely a semantic loan from an Aramaic word, perhaps cognate with Classical Syriac ܩܫܝܫܐ (qaššīšā).[1][2][3][4][5]

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbúteros) m (feminine πρεσβῠτέρᾱ, neuter πρεσβῠ́τερον); first/second declension

  1. older of two people
  2. advanced in life, senior

Declension

Noun

πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbúteros) m (genitive πρεσβῠτέρου); second declension

  1. a term of rank or office
    1. a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin
    2. in the New Testament, a group that presided over the assemblies or congregations: elder, presbyter

Declension

Descendants

  • → Latin: presbyter (see there for further descendants)
  • → Russian: пресви́тер (presvíter)

References

  1. Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 275
  2. Heever, Gerhard van den (2016), “Early Christian discourses and literature in North African Christianities in the context of Hellenistic Judaism and Graeco-Roman Culture”, in Bongmba, Elias Kiphon, editor, The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa, Milton Park: Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 67
  3. Kloppenborg, John S. (2011), “Greco-Roman Thiasoi, the Ekklēsia at Corinth, and Conflict Management”, in Cameron, Ron; Miller, Merrill P., editors, Rediscribing Paul and the Corinthians, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 191–204
  4. Rudolph, Wilhelm (1922) Die Abhängigkeit des Qorans von Judentum und Christentum (in German), Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, page 7
  5. Tubach, Jürgen (2015), “Aramaic Loanwords in Gǝʿǝz”, in Butts, Aaron Michael, editor, Semitic Languages in Contact (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 82), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 358–359

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