βαπτιστής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From βᾰπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “to baptise”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bap.tis.tɛ̌ːs/ → /βap.tisˈtis/ → /vap.tisˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bap.tis.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bap.tisˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βap.tisˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vap.tisˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vap.tisˈtis/

Noun

βᾰπτῐστής • (baptistḗs) m (genitive βᾰπτῐστοῦ); first declension

1. baptist (commonly as an epithet of John the Baptist)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ βᾰπτῐστής; τοῦ βᾰπτῐστοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βᾰπτῐστής ho baptistḗs	τὼ βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ tṑ baptistā́	οἱ βᾰπτῐσταί hoi baptistaí
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰπτῐστοῦ toû baptistoû	τοῖν βᾰπτῐσταῖν toîn baptistaîn	τῶν βᾰπτῐστῶν tôn baptistôn
Dative	τῷ βᾰπτῐστῇ tôi baptistêi	τοῖν βᾰπτῐσταῖν toîn baptistaîn	τοῖς βᾰπτῐσταῖς toîs baptistaîs
Accusative	τὸν βᾰπτῐστήν tòn baptistḗn	τὼ βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ tṑ baptistā́	τοὺς βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ς toùs baptistā́s
Vocative	βᾰπτῐστᾰ́ baptistá	βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ baptistā́	βᾰπτῐσταί baptistaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: baptist
• Greek: βαπτιστής (vaptistís), βαφτιστής (vaftistís)

Further reading

• “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαπτιστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βαπτιστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G910 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible