Pharisaeus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Koine Greek Φᾰρῑσαῖος (Pharīsaîos, “Pharisee”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰa.riːˈsae̯.us/, [pʰäriːˈs̠äe̯ʊs̠] or IPA(key): /pʰa.riˈsae̯.us/, [pʰärɪˈs̠äe̯ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fa.riˈse.us/, [färiˈs̬ɛːus]
Noun
Pharī̆saeus m (genitive Pharī̆saeī); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) a Pharisee (a member of the Jewish sect of that name)
- (Ecclesiastical Latin, exclusively in the plural, the sect taken as a collective) the Pharisees
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Pharī̆saeus | Pharī̆saeī |
| Genitive | Pharī̆saeī | Pharī̆saeōrum |
| Dative | Pharī̆saeō | Pharī̆saeīs |
| Accusative | Pharī̆saeum | Pharī̆saeōs |
| Ablative | Pharī̆saeō | Pharī̆saeīs |
| Vocative | Pharī̆saee | Pharī̆saeī |
Descendants
- → Danish: farisæer
- → Greenlandic: farisiiari
- → Dutch: farizeeër
- → English: Pharisee
- → Faroese: fariseari
- → Finnish: fariseus
- Old Francoprovençal: phariseu
- Franco-Provençal: phariséo
- → French: pharisien
- Haitian Creole: farizyen
- → German: Pharisäer
- → Hungarian: farizeus
- → Irish: Fairisíneach
- → Italian: fariseo
- → Malay: Farisi
- → Old English: Farisēisc, Pharisēisc
- Middle English: Farisewisshe, Pharisewisshe
- → Plautdietsch: Farisäa
- → Portuguese: fariseu
- → Romanian: fariseu
- → Russian: фарисей (farisej)
- → Spanish: fariseo
Adjective
Pharisaeus (feminine Pharisaea, neuter Pharisaeum); first/second-declension adjective
- Pharisaean
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | Pharisaeus | Pharisaea | Pharisaeum | Pharisaeī | Pharisaeae | Pharisaea | |
| Genitive | Pharisaeī | Pharisaeae | Pharisaeī | Pharisaeōrum | Pharisaeārum | Pharisaeōrum | |
| Dative | Pharisaeō | Pharisaeō | Pharisaeīs | ||||
| Accusative | Pharisaeum | Pharisaeam | Pharisaeum | Pharisaeōs | Pharisaeās | Pharisaea | |
| Ablative | Pharisaeō | Pharisaeā | Pharisaeō | Pharisaeīs | |||
| Vocative | Pharisaee | Pharisaea | Pharisaeum | Pharisaeī | Pharisaeae | Pharisaea | |
Related terms
- Pharisaicus
References
- “Phărĭsaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Phărĭsæi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,171/3