antistes

From Latin antistes (“bishop”).

antistes

1. (now historical) The chief minister of the Swiss Reformed Church in a given canton, from the sixteenth to the nineteeth centuries.
   • 2003, Deirdre Bair, Jung, Little, Brown & Co., page 16:

     One of the reasons Antistes Samuel was first attracted to Gustele Faber was her “second sight.”

   • 2013, Sugiko Nishikawa, ‘The World of JC Werndli’, in Jane McKee (ed.), The Huguenots, Sussex Academic Press 2014, p. 169:

     Anton Klingler, the Antistes of Zurich, recommended him for preferment in the Church of England as a “speedy reward” for his past service.

From antistō (“stand before”) +‎ -es (“going”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [anˈtɪs.tɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪ˈt̪is.t̪es]

antistes m or f (genitive antistitis); third declension

1. overseer
2. high priest

   Synonym: pontifex m

3. master (of an art)

   Synonym: magister m

4. bishop

   Synonym: episcopus m

5. (female) overseer, chief priestess

Third-declension noun.

• antistita f
• antistitium n

• →? Portuguese: antístite
• →? Romanian: antiste
• →? Spanish: antístite

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [anˈtɪs.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪ˈt̪is.t̪es]

antistēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of antistō

• “antistes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “antistes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "antistes", 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)
• antistes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.