Hesychast

English

Etymology

From Mediaeval (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛsɪkæst/

Noun

Hesychast (plural Hesychasts)

1. (ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.

Translations

a member of a school of quietist monks in 14th-century Greece and Byzantium

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靜修士／静修士, 静修士 (jìngxiūshì)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
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• Finnish: hesykasti
• German: Hesychast (de) m
• Portuguese: hesicasta m or f