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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbúteros, “old”) + -ῐον (-ion), from πρέσβῠς (présbus, “old man”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prez.by.té.ri.on/ → /prez.βyˈte.ri.on/ → /prez.viˈte.ri.on/
Noun
πρεσβῠτέρῐον • (presbutérion) n (genitive πρεσβῠτερῐ́ου); second declension
- council, body of elders, presbytery
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “πρεσβυτέριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρεσβυτέριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρεσβυτέριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4244 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible