propheta

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Spanish propheta (archaic spelling of profeta), from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

Noun

propheta

1. prophet
   • 17C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Chimalpahin, Exercicio quotidiano, f. 4r.

     ca intlanel ce Angel. ahnoço aca huei sancto, ahnoço aca huei propheta xiqualmihualiani

     (Supposing that You had sent an angel or some great saint or some great prophet here)

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, →ISBN, pages 134–135

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Latin

Alternative forms

• prophētēs

Etymology

From Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈpʰeː.ta/, [prɔˈpʰeːt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfe.ta/, [proˈfɛːt̪ä]

Noun

prophēta m (genitive prophētae, feminine prophētis or prophētissa); first declension

1. prophet, soothsayer
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Ieremias 29:1

     et haec sunt verba libri quae misit Hieremias propheta de Hierusalem […]

     Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem […]

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prophēta	prophētae
Genitive	prophētae	prophētārum
Dative	prophētae	prophētīs
Accusative	prophētam	prophētās
Ablative	prophētā	prophētīs
Vocative	prophēta	prophētae

Derived terms

• prophētālis
• prophētātiō
• prophētissa
• prophētīzō
• prophētō

Related terms

• prophētīa
• prophētiālis
• prophēticē
• prophēticus
• prophētis

Descendants

• Asturian: profeta
• Catalan: profeta
• Galician: profeta
• → German: Prophet
• Italian: profeta
• → Old English: propheta
  • Middle English: prophete, profyt, profyte, profite, prophett, prophet, profiete
    • English: prophet
      • Tok Pisin: profet
    • Scots: prophet

• → Old French: prophete
  • Middle French: prophete
    • French: prophète
  • → Middle Dutch: prophete
    • Dutch: profeet
      • Afrikaans: profeet
      • Negerhollands: profeet
      • → Papiamentu: profeet (dated)
      • → Sranan Tongo: profeiti
• → Old Norse: prófeti
  • Danish: profet
  • Norwegian: profet
  • Swedish: profet
• Portuguese: profeta
• Romansch: profet
• → Old Spanish: propheta
  • Spanish: profeta
    • → Cebuano: propeta
• Welsh: proffwyd

References

• “propheta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• propheta 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)

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Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• profeta

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈfeta/

Noun

propheta m or f (plural prophetas)

1. prophet
   • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42r. a.

     dixo el pph´a [propheta] lo q́ el criador puſie / re em mi boca eſſo fablare […]

     The prophet said: "that which the creator puts in my mouth, that is what I shall speak."

   • Idem, f. 42r. b.

     agora por eſto pph´izauan tus / pphetas falsedat.

     And now because of this your prophets make false prophecies.

Related terms

• prophecia
• prophetizar

Descendants

• Spanish: profeta