evangelista

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛvaŋɡɛlɪsta]

evangelista m anim

1. Evangelist (a writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels)

• “evangelista”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “evangelista”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “evangelista”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• vangelista (archaic, only in meanings 1 and 2)

Borrowed from Late Latin evangelista, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”).

• IPA^(key): /e.van.d͡ʒeˈlis.ta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: e‧van‧ge‧lì‧sta

evangelista m (plural evangelisti)

1. (biblical) evangelist (writer of a Gospel)
2. (Christianity, primitive Church)evangelist (preacher of the Gospel)
3. (Christianity) evangelist, preacher
4. (Christianity) one who reads or sings a Gospel

• evangelizzare
• vangelo

• evangelista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• segnalatevi

From Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs). By surface analysis, evangelium +‎ -ista.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.waŋ.ɡɛˈlɪs.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.van̠ʲ.d͡ʒeˈlis.t̪a]

evangelista f (genitive evangelistae); first declension

1. evangelist, preacher

First-declension noun.

• Old French: evangeliste
  • French: évangéliste
  • → English: evangelist
  • → Middle Dutch: ewangeliste
    • Dutch: evangelist
• Italian: evangelista
• Old Spanish: euangelista, euangelysta
  • Spanish: evangelista
    • → Tagalog: ebanghelista
• → Czech: evangelista
• → German: Evangelist
• → Hungarian: evangélista
• → Old Swedish: evangeliste
  • Swedish: evangelist

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

Inherited from Old Spanish euangelista, borrowed from Latin evangelista, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs).

• IPA^(key): /ebanxeˈlista/ [e.β̞ãŋ.xeˈlis.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: e‧van‧ge‧lis‧ta

evangelista m or f by sense (plural evangelistas)

1. (Christianity) evangelist

• → Tagalog: ebanghelista

• “evangelista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024