presbyter

From Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Doublet of prester and priest.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛzbɪtə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛzbɪtɚ/, /ˈpɹɛsbɪtɚ/

presbyter (plural presbyters)

1. An elder, priest, pastor, or minister in various Christian churches.

   Hypernym: cleric

2. An elder of the Presbyterian church.

   Hypernym: cleric

3. An elder of the congregation in early Christianity.

• “presbyter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛs.by.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛz.bi.t̪er]

presbyter m (genitive presbyterī); second declension

1. elder, presbyter

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• presbytera
• presbyterātus

• presbyterium

Borrowings

• “presbyter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• presbyter in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016