cosmocrator

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek κοσμοκράτωρ (kosmokrátōr, “cosmocrator”), from κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) +‎ κράτωρ (krátōr, “ruler”).

cosmocrator (plural cosmocrators)

1. (chiefly religion) A ruler of the entire world or cosmos.

   Synonym: cosmocrat

   • 1967, Gustav Davidson, Dictionary of Angels, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     Cosmocrator — in Valentinian gnosticism, Cosmocrator is ruler of the material cosmos in the guise of Diabolos (the devil). His consort is Barbelo and together "they sing praises to the Powers of the Light," which would indicate that Cosmocrator is not wholly evil.

   • 1972, Israel Oriental Studies, volume 2, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University., page 171:

     In the same vein, according to the Jewish lists of ten cosmocrators the tenth and last king will be God himself.

   • 2004, Jack T. Sanders, The New Testament Christological Hymns, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

     It is the confluence of Old Testament and Hellenistic terminology that makes him more than a mere cultic hero or lord; he is cosmocrator, lord of the cosmos, for the powers in v. 10 are cosmic powers.

   • 2015, Revd Allen Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order, Brill, →ISBN, page 293:

     Pursuing the same project with the same ontological purpose, Proclus will later admit the seven cosmocrators as the seven planets into his Neoplatonist scheme. "The planets are called 'cosmocrators'" but they are no longer rebellious aeons fragmenting the pleroma through their ignorance.

   • 2020, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Christian Gnosis, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

     In addition to the Demiurge, they also speak of a Cosmocrator (ruler of the world) and of evil spirits.

• cosmocratôr

Borrowed from Latin cosmocrator, itself from Ancient Greek κοσμοκράτωρ (kosmokrátōr).

cosmocrator m (plural cosmocrators)

1. cosmocrator

• “cosmocrator”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοσμοκράτωρ (kosmokrátōr).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kosˈmo.kra.toːr/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kosˈmo.kra.tor/,

cosmocratōr m (genitive cosmocratōris); third declension

1. cosmocrator

Third-declension noun.

• cosmocrator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.