presbyterium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin presbyterium. Doublet of presbytery.

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Noun

presbyterium (plural presbyteria)

  1. (architecture) A presbytery.
    • 1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in edited by Richard Stillwell, William L MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:
      Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
  2. A college of priests in active ministry of a particular Catholic church; a diocese, eparchy, or similar group of priests.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “presbyterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρεσβῠτέριον (presbutérion).

Pronunciation

Noun

presbyterium n (genitive presbyteriī or presbyterī); second declension

  1. presbytery (assembly of elders)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative presbyterium presbyteria
genitive presbyteriī
presbyterī1 		presbyteriōrum
dative presbyteriō presbyteriīs
accusative presbyterium presbyteria
ablative presbyteriō presbyteriīs
vocative presbyterium presbyteria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

presbyterium n (definite singular presbyteriet, indefinite plural presbyterier, definite plural presbyteria or presbyteriene)

  1. presbytery

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

presbyterium n (definite singular presbyteriet, indefinite plural presbyterium, definite plural presbyteria)

  1. presbytery
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