diaconus

Latin

Alternative forms

diācōn, zācōn

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diˈaː.kɔ.nʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈaː.ko.nus]

Noun

diāconus m (genitive diāconī, feminine diaconissa); second declension

deacon

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	diāconus	diāconī
genitive	diāconī	diāconōrum
dative	diāconō	diāconīs
accusative	diāconum	diāconōs
ablative	diāconō	diāconīs
vocative	diācone	diāconī

Descendants

Italian: giacono
Sicilian: jàcunu
Venetan: zago
→ Old English: diacon
- Middle English: deken
  - English: deacon
- → Old Norse: djákni, djákn
  - Icelandic: djákni
  - Old Swedish: diäkn, diäkne, däkn
    - Swedish: djäkne
→ Catalan: diaca
→ Middle Dutch: diaken
- → Dutch: diaken
→ Esperanto: diakono
→ Finnish: diakoni
→ French: diacre
- → Franco-Provençal: diâcro
→ German: Diakon
→ Italian: diacono
→ Middle Low German: diaken
- → Old Danish: diakn
  - Danish: degn
    - Faroese: deknur
    - Norwegian Bokmål: degn
    - → Norwegian Nynorsk: dekn
→ Middle Welsh: diacon
- Welsh: diacon
→ Norman: diacre
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: diakon
→ Norwegian Bokmål: diakon
→ Portuguese: diácono
→ Spanish: diácono

References

“diaconus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"diaconus", 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)
diaconus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.