antistes

English

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Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANTISTES antistes (“bishop”).

Noun

antistesCategory:English lemmas#ANTISTESCategory:English nouns#ANTISTESCategory:English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals#ANTISTESCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with entries#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ANTISTES

  1. (now historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#ANTISTES) 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.”
      Category:English terms with quotations#ANTISTES
    • 2013, Sugiko Nishikawa, “The World of JC Werndli”, in Jane McKee, editor, The Huguenots, Sussex Academic Press, published 2014, page 169:
      Anton Klingler, the Antistes of Zurich, recommended him for preferment in the Church of England as a “speedy reward” for his past service.
      Category:English terms with quotations#ANTISTES

Latin

Etymology 1

From antistō (“stand before”) +‎ -es (“going”)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem)#ANTISTES.

Pronunciation

Noun

antistes m or f (genitive antistitis)Category:Latin lemmas#ANTISTESCategory:Latin nouns#ANTISTESCategory:Latin third declension nouns#ANTISTESCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#ANTISTESCategory:Latin feminine nouns in the third declension#ANTISTESCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANTISTESCategory:Latin masculine nouns#ANTISTESCategory:Latin feminine nouns#ANTISTESCategory:Latin nouns with multiple genders#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with entries#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ANTISTES; 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
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

antistēsCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#ANTISTESCategory:Latin verb forms#ANTISTESCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with entries#ANTISTESCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ANTISTES

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of antistō

References

  • “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, 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.
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