Presbyterianism

See also: presbyterianism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Presbyterian

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English Presbyterianism

From Presbyterian + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪə.ɹɪə.nɪ.zəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪɹ.iə.nɪ.zəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Presbyterianism (uncountable)

1. A form of Protestant Christianity based on Calvinism.
2. A form of Christian church government characterized by rule by bodies of presbyters or elders.

Hypernyms

• Christianity, Christianism
• Protestantism
• Calvinism

Derived terms

• Presleyterianism

Related terms

• Presbyterian

Translations

form of Protestantism

• Basque: presbiterianismo
• Belarusian: прэсвітарыянства n (presvitaryjanstva)
• Bulgarian: презвитериа́нство n (prezviteriánstvo)
• Catalan: presbiterianisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長老宗 / 长老宗 (chánglǎozōng), 長老會 / 长老会 (zh) (zhǎnglǎohuì)

• Czech: presbyteriánství n
• Danish: presbyterianisme c
• Dutch: presbyterianisme n
• Esperanto: presbiteriismo
• Estonian: presbüterlus
• Finnish: presbyterismi
• French: presbytérianisme (fr) m
• Georgian: პრესვიტერიანობა (ṗresviṭerianoba)
• German: Presbyterianismus m
• Greek: πρεσβυτεριανισμός (el) m (presvyterianismós)
• Hungarian: presbiterianizmus
• Indonesian: Presbiterianisme
• Irish: Preispitéireachas m
• Italian: presbiterianesimo (it) m
• Japanese: 長老派教会 (ちょうろうはきょうかい, chōrōha kyōkai), 長老派 (ja) (ちょうろうは, chōrōha), 長老教 (ちょうろうきょう, chōrōkyō)
• Kazakh: пресвитериандық (presviyterıyandıq)
• Korean: 장로교(長老敎) (jangnogyo)
• Latvian: prezbiteriānisms m
• Lithuanian: presbiterionizmas m
• Macedonian: презвитеријанство n (prezviterijanstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: presbyterianisme m

  Nynorsk: presbyterianisme m

• Polish: prezbiterianizm m
• Portuguese: presbiterianismo (pt) m
• Romanian: presbiterianism n
• Russian: пресвитериа́нство (ru) n (presvitɛriánstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: презвитеријанство n

  Latin: prezbiterijanstvo n

• Slovak: presbyterianizmus m
• Slovene: prezbiterijanstvo n
• Spanish: presbiterianismo m
• Swedish: presbyterianism c
• Ukrainian: пресвітеріа́нство n (presviteriánstvo)
• Welsh: Presbyteriaeth f