propheta

From Spanish propheta (archaic spelling of profeta), from Latin prophēta, from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

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propheta

1. prophet
   • 17C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Chimalpahin, Exercicio quotidiano, f. 4r.

     ca intlanel ce Angel. ahnoço aca huei sancto, ahnoço aca huei propheta xiqualmihualiani

     Supposing that You had sent an angel or some great saint or some great prophet here

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2, →ISBN, pages 134–135

• prophētēs

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proˈpʰeː.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈfe.ta/,

prophēta m (genitive prophētae, feminine prophētis or prophētissa); first declension

1. prophet, soothsayer
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 29:1:

     et haec sunt verba libri quae misit Hieremias propheta de Hierusalem […]

     Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem

First-declension noun.

• “propheta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• propheta 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)

• profeta

Learned borrowing from Latin prophēta, borrowed from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs), from προ- (pro-) + φημί (phēmí) + -της (-tēs).

• IPA^(key): /pɾoˈfeta/

propheta m or f (plural prophetas)

1. prophet
   • 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 42ra:

     dixo el ppħa [propheta] lo q̃ el criador puſie / re em mi boca eſſo fablare […]

     The prophet said: "that which the creator puts in my mouth, that is what I shall speak."

   • 13th century, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, page 42rb:

     agora por eſto ppħizauan tus / pphetas falsedat.

     And now because of this your prophets make false prophecies.

• Spanish: profeta, propheta (obsolete)
  • → Cebuano: propeta
  • → Classical Nahuatl: propheta
  • → Tagalog: propeta, pulupeta