βαπτιστής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βᾰπτῐ́ζω (baptízō, “to baptise”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bap.tis.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bap.tisˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βap.tisˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vap.tisˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /vap.tisˈtis/
Noun
βᾰπτῐστής • (baptistḗs) m (genitive βᾰπτῐστοῦ); first declension
- baptist (commonly as an epithet of John the Baptist)
Inflection
First declension of ὁ βᾰπτῐστής; τοῦ βᾰπτῐστοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βᾰπτῐστής ho baptistḗs | τὼ βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ tṑ baptistā́ | οἱ βᾰπτῐσταί hoi baptistaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βᾰπτῐστοῦ toû baptistoû | τοῖν βᾰπτῐσταῖν toîn baptistaîn | τῶν βᾰπτῐστῶν tôn baptistôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βᾰπτῐστῇ tôi baptistêi | τοῖν βᾰπτῐσταῖν toîn baptistaîn | τοῖς βᾰπτῐσταῖς toîs baptistaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βᾰπτῐστήν tòn baptistḗn | τὼ βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ tṑ baptistā́ | τοὺς βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ς toùs baptistā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰπτῐστᾰ́ baptistá | βᾰπτῐστᾱ́ baptistā́ | βᾰπτῐσταί baptistaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: baptist
- Greek: βαπτιστής (vaptistís), βαφτιστής (vaftistís)
Further reading
- “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βαπτιστής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βαπτιστής 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
- βαπτιστής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G910 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible