Orthodox

See also: orthodox

English

Adjective

Orthodox (comparative more Orthodox, superlative most Orthodox)

(Christianity) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
(Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
(Judaism) Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
(Quakerism) Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.
- 2006, Martha Paxson Grundy, The Evolution of a Quaker Community: Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850
  [...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite.

Derived terms

orthodoxize
Orthodoxy

Translations

of the Orthodox Churches

Albanian: ortodoks (sq)
Arabic: أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ‎ (ʾurṯūḏuksiyy), أُرْثُذُوكْسِيّ‎ (ʾurṯuḏūksiyy)
Hijazi Arabic: أرثذوكسي‎ (ʾurṯuḏōksi)
Armenian: ուղղափառ (hy) (ułłapʿaṙ)
Azerbaijani: pravoslav, ortodoks
Belarusian: правасла́ўны (pravasláŭny), (generic прававе́рны (pravavjérny))
Bengali: অর্থডক্স (ôrthôḍôkś)
Bulgarian: правосла́вен (bg) (pravosláven), (generic правове́рен (bg) (pravovéren))
Catalan: ortodox (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 東正教／东正教 (zh) (dōngzhèngjiào) (Eastern Orthodox), 正教 (zh) (zhèngjiào)
Crimean Tatar: ortodoks
Czech: pravoslavný (cs), (generic pravověrný)
Danish: ortodoks
Dutch: orthodox (nl), (Eastern Orthodox) Oosters-orthodox
Esperanto: ortodoksa
Estonian: õigeusu
Faroese: ortodoksur
Finnish: ortodoksinen (fi)
French: orthodoxe (fr)
Georgian: მართლმადიდებელი (martlmadidebeli)
German: orthodox (de)
Greek: ορθόδοξος (el) (orthódoxos)
Hebrew: אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְּסִי‎ (ortodóksi)
Hindi: रूढ़िवादी (hi) (rūṛhivādī)
Hungarian: ortodox (hu), pravoszláv
Ido: ortodoxa (io)
Italian: ortodosso (it)
Japanese: オーソドックス (ja) (ōsodokkusu), 正教 (ja) (せいきょう, seikyō)
Kazakh: православиелік (pravoslavielık)
Korean: 정교(正敎) (ko) (jeonggyo)
Kyrgyz: православие (pravoslaviye)
Lao: ອອກໂຕດົກ (ʼǭk tō dok)
Macedonian: православен (pravoslaven)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ortodoks
Nynorsk: ortodoks
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: православьнъ (pravoslavĭnŭ)
Persian: ارتدکس‎ (fa) (ortodoks)
Polish: prawosławny (pl), (generic prawowierny (pl) or Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic)
Portuguese: ortodoxo (pt)
Romanian: ortodox (ro)
Russian: правосла́вный (ru) (pravoslávnyj), (generic правове́рный (ru) (pravovérnyj))
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пра̏восла̄ван
Roman: prȁvoslāvan (sh)
Slovak: pravoslávny
Slovene: pravoslaven
Spanish: ortodoxo (es)
Tajik: православӣ (pravoslavī)
Tatar: православие (prawoslawiye)
Thai: ออร์ทอดอกซ์ (ɔɔ-tɔɔ-dɔ̀k)
Turkish: ortodoks (tr)
Turkmen: prawoslaw
Ukrainian: правосла́вний (pravoslávnyj), (generic правові́рний (uk) (pravovírnyj) or relating to the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic church)
Uzbek: pravoslaviye (uz)
Vietnamese: chánh giáo

of Orthodox Judaism

Arabic: أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ‎ (ʾurṯūḏuksiyy)
Finnish: ortodoksinen (fi), ortodoksijuutalainen
Greek: ορθόδοξος (el) (orthódoxos)
Hebrew: אורתודוקסי‎ (ortodóksi)
Hungarian: ortodox (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ortodoks
Nynorsk: ortodoks
Persian: ارتدکس‎ (fa) (ortodoks)
Polish: ortodoksyjny (Judaizm)
Portuguese: ortodoxo (pt)
Russian: ортодокса́льный (иудаи́зм) (ortodoksálʹnyj (iudaízm))

Noun

Orthodox (plural Orthodox or Orthodoxes)

(uncommon) An Orthodox Christian.
- 1891, John Scott Keltie, The Statesman's Year-Book, MacMillan and Co., page 854.
  The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.
- 1984, David Gillard (ed.), British documents on foreign affairs: Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print, Part I: From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War, Series B: The Near and Middle East, 1856-1914, page 31.
  The Greek Catholic priesthood, who proselytize among the Orthodoxes, are specially favoured, and donations are given for Masses in the churches of the Capuchin and the Franciscan Friars.
(rare) An Orthodox Jew.

Usage notes

Use of Orthodox as a noun is considerably less common than the use of Orthodox Jew and Orthodox Christian.