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Latin
Noun
īdōlolatra f (genitive īdōlolatrae); first declension
- Alternative form of īdōlolatrēs ("idol worshipper", "idolater").
- 1844-1855, Hieronymus Stridonensis, Jacques-Paul Migne ed., Patrologia Latina, volume 23, page 175
quid credidit? certe aut tria nomina audiens, tres deos credidit, et idololatra eſſectus est; aut in tribus vocabulis trinominem credens Deum, in Sabellii hæresim incurrit.- "What did he believe? Certainly, either hearing three names, he believed that there were three Gods, and so became an idolater; or, believing that the three words were three names of one God, he fell into Sabellianism."
Declension
First-declension noun.
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