Pharisaeus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Koine Greek Φᾰρῑσαῖος (Pharīsaîos, “Pharisee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pʰa.riːˈsae̯.us/, [pʰäriːˈs̠äe̯ʊs̠] or IPA^(key): /pʰa.riˈsae̯.us/, [pʰärɪˈs̠äe̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa.riˈse.us/, [färiˈs̬ɛːus]

Noun

Pharī̆saeus m (genitive Pharī̆saeī); second declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) a Pharisee (a member of the Jewish sect of that name)
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, exclusively in the plural, the sect taken as a collective) the Pharisees

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Pharī̆saeus	Pharī̆saeī
Genitive	Pharī̆saeī	Pharī̆saeōrum
Dative	Pharī̆saeō	Pharī̆saeīs
Accusative	Pharī̆saeum	Pharī̆saeōs
Ablative	Pharī̆saeō	Pharī̆saeīs
Vocative	Pharī̆saee	Pharī̆saeī

Descendants

• → Danish: farisæer
  • → Greenlandic: farisiiari
• → Dutch: farizeeër
• → English: Pharisee
• → Faroese: fariseari
• → Finnish: fariseus
• → French: pharisien
  • Haitian Creole: farizyen
• → German: Pharisäer
• → Hungarian: farizeus
• → Irish: Fairisíneach
• → Italian: fariseo
• → Malay: Farisi
• → Old English: Farisēisc, Pharisēisc
  • Middle English: Farisewisshe, Pharisewisshe
• → Plautdietsch: Farisäa
• → Portuguese: fariseu
• → Romanian: fariseu
• → Russian: фарисей (farisej)
• → Spanish: fariseo

Adjective

Pharisaeus (feminine Pharisaea, neuter Pharisaeum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Pharisaean

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	Pharisaeus	Pharisaea	Pharisaeum		Pharisaeī	Pharisaeae	Pharisaea
Genitive	Pharisaeī	Pharisaeae	Pharisaeī		Pharisaeōrum	Pharisaeārum	Pharisaeōrum
Dative	Pharisaeō		Pharisaeō		Pharisaeīs
Accusative	Pharisaeum	Pharisaeam	Pharisaeum		Pharisaeōs	Pharisaeās	Pharisaea
Ablative	Pharisaeō	Pharisaeā	Pharisaeō		Pharisaeīs
Vocative	Pharisaee	Pharisaea	Pharisaeum		Pharisaeī	Pharisaeae	Pharisaea

Related terms

• Pharisaicus

References

• “Phărĭsaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phărĭsæi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,171/3.