presbyterium
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin
Noun
presbyterium (plural presbyteria)
- (architecture) A presbytery.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “presbyterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρεσβῠτέριον (presbutérion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pres.byˈte.ri.um/, [prɛs̠bʏˈt̪ɛriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pres.biˈte.ri.um/, [prezbiˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
presbyterium n (genitive presbyteriī or presbyterī); second declension
- presbytery (assembly of elders)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
Genitive | presbyteriī presbyterī1 |
presbyteriōrum |
Dative | presbyteriō | presbyteriīs |
Accusative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
Ablative | presbyteriō | presbyteriīs |
Vocative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “presbyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- presbyterium 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)
- presbyterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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