Theotokos
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Etymology
Borrowed from Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “the God-bearer”), from Ancient Greek Θεός (Theós, “God”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”). First attested in 3rd–4th century. Cf. Christotokos.
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Proper noun
(the) Theotokos
- (Christianity, chiefly Orthodoxy) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
- Synonyms: Deipara, Mother of God
- 1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66:
- It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]
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Note: Only titles directly borrowed from the Greek or that literally mean "God-bearer" should go here. Translations that simply mean Mother of God in the language in question should go at that entry.
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References
- ^ “Theotokos”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
