Uniate
See also: uniate
English
Alternative forms
- Uniat
Etymology
See Uniat.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.nɪ.ət/
- (General American) enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt', yo͞oʹnē-āt'; IPA(key): /ˈju.niˌɪt/, /ˈju.niˌeɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪt, -eɪt
- Hyphenation: Uni‧ate
Adjective
Uniate (not comparable) (sometimes pejorative)
- Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
- Of or pertaining to Uniates
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
Noun
Uniate (plural Uniates) (sometimes pejorative)
- A member of a Uniate Church
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
Synonyms
- Eastern Catholic
Hypernyms
- Catholic
Hyponyms
- Armenian Catholic
- Coptic Catholic
- Eritrean Catholic
- Ethiopian Catholic
- Greek Catholic
- Maronite
- Syriac Catholic
References
- “Uniate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Bowker, John (2000), “Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “ 'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
- Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), “Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670: “ 'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”
- Uniate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- "Uniate" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
Anagrams
- Auntie, auntie