Bethleem
See also: Bethléem
Latin
Pronunciation
- Bēthleëm: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbeːtʰ.ɫe.ẽː]
- Bēthleëm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛt̪.le.em]
- Bēthlēēm: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [beːtʰˈɫeː.ẽː]
- Bēthlēēm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bet̪ˈlɛː.em]
Proper noun
Bēthleëm or Bēthlēēm n (indeclinable)
- alternative form of Bēthlehēmum
- Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:1:
- cum ergo natus esset Iesus in Bethleem Iudaeae in diebus Herodis regis ecce magi ab oriente venerunt Hierosolymam
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
- “Bēthleëm”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French Betleem, from Latin Bēthlehēmum, Bēthleëm, from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bet léchem).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛdleː(ɛ)m/, /ˈbɛdlɛm/
Proper noun
Bethleem
- Bethlehem (a city in Palestine)
- (rare) Bethlem Royal Hospital
Descendants
References
- “Bedlẹ̄̆m, -lẹ̄em, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 February 2019.
Old English
Etymology
From Latin Bēthleëm, from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bet léchem)
Proper noun
Bethleem f
- Bethlehem (a city in Palestine)
- Analecta Angla Saxonica
- Eornostlīċe þā sē Hǣlend ācenned wæs on Iūdeseisċre Bethléém, on þǣs cyningum dagum Herodes, þā cōmon þā tungolwītegan fram ēastdǣle tō Hierusalem.
- Truly, the Savior was born in Jewish Bethlehem, in the days of King Herod, after which the Wise Men came to Jerusalem from the east.
- Analecta Angla Saxonica