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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βᾰπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “to baptise”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bap.tis.tɛ̌ːs/ → /βap.tisˈtis/ → /vap.tisˈtis/
Noun
βᾰπτῐστής • (baptistḗs) m (genitive βᾰπτῐστοῦ); first declension
- baptist (commonly as an epithet of John the Baptist)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βαπτιστής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- βαπτιστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G910 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible