diaconus

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

diācōn, zācōn

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈaː.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkɔnʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkonus]

Noun[edit]

diāconus m (genitive diāconī); second declension

deacon

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diāconus	diāconī
Genitive	diāconī	diāconōrum
Dative	diāconō	diāconīs
Accusative	diāconum	diāconōs
Ablative	diāconō	diāconīs
Vocative	diācone	diāconī

Descendants[edit]

Italian: giacono
Sicilian: jacunu
Venetian: zago
→ Old English: diacon
- Middle English: deken
  - English: deacon
- → Old Norse: djákni, djákn
  - Icelandic: djákni
  - Old Swedish: diäkn, diäkne, däkn
    - Swedish: djäkne
→ Catalan: diaca
→ Middle Dutch: diaken
- → Dutch: diaken
→ Esperanto: diakono
→ Finnish: diakoni
→ Old Franco-Provençal: diáquen, diáqueno
- Franco-Provençal: diaqueno
→ French: diacre
→ German: Diakon
→ Italian: diacono
→ Middle Low German: diaken
- → Old Danish: diakn
  - Danish: degn
    - Faroese: deknur
    - Norwegian Bokmål: degn
    - → Norwegian Nynorsk: dekn
→ Norman: diacre
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: diakon
→ Norwegian Bokmål: diakon
→ Portuguese: diácono
→ Spanish: diácono

References[edit]

“diaconus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
diaconus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
diaconus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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