Bethleem
See also: Bethléem
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- Bēthleëm: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbeːtʰ.le.em/, [ˈbeːt̪ʰɫ̪eɛ̃ˑ]
- Bēthleëm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbet.le.em/, [ˈbɛt̪leːm]
- Bēthlēēm: (Classical) IPA(key): /beːtʰˈleː.eːm/, [beːt̪ʰˈɫ̪eːeːm]
- Bēthlēēm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /betˈle.em/, [bet̪ˈlɛːem]
Proper noun edit
Bēthleëm or Bēthlēēm n (indeclinable)
- Alternative form of Bēthlehēmum
- Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:1:
- cum ergo natus esset Iesus in Bethleem Iudaeae in diebus Herodis regis ecce magi ab oriente venerunt Hierosolymam
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Bēthleëm”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French Betleem, from Latin Bēthlehēmum, Bēthleëm, from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bet léchem).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Bethleem
- Bethlehem (a city in Palestine)
- (rare) Bethlem Royal Hospital
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Bedlẹ̄̆m, -lẹ̄em, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-23.