diaconus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈaː.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkɔnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈa.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkonus]
Noun edit
diāconus m (genitive diāconī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diāconus | diāconī |
| Genitive | diāconī | diāconōrum |
| Dative | diāconō | diāconīs |
| Accusative | diāconum | diāconōs |
| Ablative | diāconō | diāconīs |
| Vocative | diācone | diāconī |
Descendants edit
- Italian: giacono
- Sicilian: jacunu
- Venetian: zago
- → Old English: diacon
- → Catalan: diaca
- → Middle Dutch: diaken
- → Dutch: diaken
- → Esperanto: diakono
- → Finnish: diakoni
- → Old Franco-Provençal: diáquen, diáqueno
- Franco-Provençal: diaqueno
- → French: diacre
- → German: Diakon
- → Italian: diacono
- → Middle Low German: diaken
- → Norman: diacre
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: diakon
- → Norwegian Bokmål: diakon
- → Portuguese: diácono
- → Spanish: diácono
References edit
- “diaconus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diaconus 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)
- diaconus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.