ⲕⲉⲥⲧⲱⲛⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ

ⲕⲉⲥⲧⲱⲛⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ

Coptic

FWOTD – 22 November 2017

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κεστωνάριος (kestōnários), from Latin quaestiōnārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kestoːnarjos/

Noun

ⲕⲉⲥⲧⲱⲛⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ (kestōnarios) m (plural identical to singular)

1. junior torturer, executioner
   • Walter Till, Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrerlegenden. Texte, Übersetzungen und Indices herausgeben und bearbeitet, book II, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta, issue 102, Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum (1935), 36, lines 2.7.

     ⲇⲓⲱⲛⲏⲥⲓⲟⲥ ⲇⲉ ⲡⲁⲕⲉⲥⲧⲱⲛⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ϩⲓⲧⲛ ⲧϭⲟⲙ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲛⲁⲩ ⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲉⲡⲛⲁ ⲙⲁϩϥ ⲛⲧⲓⲉⲩⲛⲟⲩ ⲁϥⲕⲁⲁϥ ⲕⲁϩⲏⲩ ⲛⲛⲉϥϩⲟⲓⲧⲉ ⲁϥⲃⲟϭϥ ⲉⲧⲣⲁϩⲧⲉ ϩⲁⲧⲙ ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲧⲉⲗⲉⲙⲏ ⲁϥⲱϣ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲉϥϫⲱ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ϫⲉ ⲟⲩⲁ ⲡⲉ ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲛⲛⲉⲭⲣⲏⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ

     Dionysios the torture assistant was filled by the power of the spirit that he had seen then, stripped off his clothes and leapt into the cauldron next to the blessed Apa Ptolemy, shouting: "One [of a kind] is the God of the Christians."