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Latin
Etymology
From antistes (“overseer, high priest”) + -a (feminine suffix).
Noun
antistita f (genitive antistitae, masculine antistes); first declension
- (high) priestess
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “antistita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “antistita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- antistita 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)
- antistita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.