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Latin
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῐόσκορος (Dĭóskoros).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dioscorus m sg (genitive Dioscorī); second declension
- (New Latin) a male given name from Ancient Greek
1587 May 17, Bernardyni Bydgoszcz. Wł., De Controversiis inter Ordinem Ecclesiasticum et Secularem in Polonia, page 175:Inquissime etiam & Nestorius a Cyrillo, & a Leone Dioscorus, heretici iudicati sunt in Ephesina & Chalcedonensi Synodo, cum inter ipsos, totaque tum agitabuntur controversia versarentur- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1888, Catholic Church, Breviarium romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii tridentini restitutum, Ratisbonæ: F. Pustet, page 251:Quod ubi rediens Dioscorus inspexit, audita novitatis causa, adeo in filiam excanduit, ut stricto ense eam appetens parum abfuerit, quin eam dire confoderet- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Dioscorus of Alexandria (Pope of Alexandria)
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
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