diakon

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diakon c (singular definite diakonen, plural indefinite diakoner)

1. deacon

• “diakon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “diakon” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Derived from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos).

• IPA^(key): /diakon/
• Hyphenation: dia‧kon

diakon

1. (Catholicism) deacon (a clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work)

   Synonym: diaken

• “diakon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

diakon

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Derived from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos).

diakon m (definite singular diakonen, indefinite plural diakoner, definite plural diakonene)

1. (Christianity) deacon

• “diakon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

diakon

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Derived from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos).

diakon m (definite singular diakonen, indefinite plural diakonar, definite plural diakonane)

1. (Christianity) deacon

• “diakon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

diakon

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Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus. Doublet of diak and żak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.kɔn/

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• Rhymes: -akɔn
• Syllabification: dia‧kon

diakon m pers (female equivalent diakonisa, related adjective diakoński)

1. (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) deacon (clergyman ranked directly below a priest)
2. (Protestantism) deacon (lay leader of a Protestant congregation)
3. (Early Christianity) deacon (designated minister of charity in the early Church)

• diakon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• diakon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus.

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diakon m pers (female equivalent diakonka, related adjective diakonský)

1. deacon (clergyman ranked directly below a priest)

• “diakon”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024