presbyterium
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin presbyterium. Doublet of presbytery.
Noun edit
presbyterium (plural presbyteria)
- (architecture) A presbytery.
- 1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:
- Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
- A college of priests in active ministry of a particular Catholic church; a diocese, eparchy, or similar group of priests.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “presbyterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρεσβῠτέριον (presbutérion).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pres.byˈte.ri.um/, [prɛs̠bʏˈt̪ɛriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pres.biˈte.ri.um/, [prezbiˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun edit
presbyterium n (genitive presbyteriī or presbyterī); second declension
- presbytery (assembly of elders)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
| Genitive | presbyteriī presbyterī1 |
presbyteriōrum |
| Dative | presbyteriō | presbyteriīs |
| Accusative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
| Ablative | presbyteriō | presbyteriīs |
| Vocative | presbyterium | presbyteria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References edit
- “presbyterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- presbyterium 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)
- presbyterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
presbyterium n (definite singular presbyteriet, indefinite plural presbyterier, definite plural presbyteria or presbyteriene)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
presbyterium n (definite singular presbyteriet, indefinite plural presbyterium, definite plural presbyteria)