presbyter
Meaningan elder
Common meaning: a church elder
- presbyolder; an elderLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 668 · scan
- terGreek -teros: comparative ending
Journey through time
- Greekπρεσβύτερος‘older’
- Latinpresbyter
- Englishpresbyter‘a church elder’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek πρεσβύτερος ‘older; an elder’.
Roots
- πρεσβύτερος Greek “older; an elder”
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