Uniat

See also: uniat

English

Etymology

19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) +‎ -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).

Pronunciation

enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ăt', yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'; IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.niːˌæt/, /ˈjuː.niːˌɪt/
Rhymes: -æt, -ɪt
Hyphenation: U‧ni‧at

Adjective

Uniat (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of Uniate [from 19th c.]
- 1818, [From the two Burjat Nobles to their Prince], “Russia”, in Report - British and Foreign Bible Society, volume 15, London: Bible House, →OCLC, page 192:
  The Greek Uniat Archbishop at Polotzki Johannes Krasszofsky has sent 1970 rubles in bank assignments
- 1850, John M. Neale, A History of the Holy Eastern Church, volume 1, London [u.a.]: Masters, →OCLC, page 56:
  temporal advantages were held out to the Uniat Greeks: no change was at first enforced

Noun

Uniat (plural Uniats)

Alternative spelling of Uniate
Synonym: Eastern Catholic

Hypernym: Catholic

Hyponyms: Armenian Catholic, Coptic Catholic, Eritrean Catholic, Ethiopian Catholic, Greek Catholic, Maronite, Syriac Catholic
- 1926, “A terrible revenge”, in Constance Garnett, transl., edited by Rudy Panko, Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (The collected works of Nickolay Gogol), New York: A. A. Knopf, translation of Страшная месть [Strašnaja mestʹ] by Nikolai Gogol, →OCLC:
  They are worse than the Uniats: they never look into the church of God

References

“Uniat”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
“Uniat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
"Uniat" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Anagrams

Autin, Ituna, Utian, tui na, tuina