diaconus

Latin

Alternative forms

• diācōn, zācōn

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈaː.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkɔnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.ko.nus/, [d̪iˈäːkonus]

Noun

diāconus m (genitive diāconī, feminine diaconissa); second declension

1. deacon

Declension

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

• Italian: giacono
• Sicilian: jacunu
• Venetian: zago
• → Old English: diacon
  • Middle English: deken
    • English: deacon
  • → Old Norse: djákni, djákn
    • Icelandic: djákni
    • Old Swedish: diäkn, diäkne, däkn
      • Swedish: djäkne
• → Catalan: diaca
• → Middle Dutch: diaken
  • → Dutch: diaken
• → Esperanto: diakono
• → Finnish: diakoni
• → French: diacre
  • → Franco-Provençal: diâcro
• → German: Diakon
• → Italian: diacono
• → Middle Low German: diaken
  • → Old Danish: diakn
    • Danish: degn
      • Faroese: deknur
      • Norwegian Bokmål: degn
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: dekn
• → Norman: diacre
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: diakon
• → Norwegian Bokmål: diakon
• → Portuguese: diácono
• → Spanish: diácono

References

• “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.