πρεσβυτέριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρεσβῠ́τερος (presbúteros, “old”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), from πρέσβῠς (présbus, “old man”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prez.by.té.ri.on/ → /prez.βyˈte.ri.on/ → /prez.viˈte.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /prez.by.té.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /prez.byˈte.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /prez.βyˈte.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /prez.vyˈte.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /prez.viˈte.ri.on/

Noun

πρεσβῠτέρῐον • (presbutérion) n (genitive πρεσβῠτερῐ́ου); second declension

1. council, body of elders, presbytery

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πρεσβῠτέρῐον; τοῦ πρεσβῠτερῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πρεσβῠτέρῐον tò presbutérion	τὼ πρεσβῠτερῐ́ω tṑ presbuteríō	τᾰ̀ πρεσβῠτέρῐᾰ tà presbutéria
Genitive	τοῦ πρεσβῠτερῐ́ου toû presbuteríou	τοῖν πρεσβῠτερῐ́οιν toîn presbuteríoin	τῶν πρεσβῠτερῐ́ων tôn presbuteríōn
Dative	τῷ πρεσβῠτερῐ́ῳ tôi presbuteríōi	τοῖν πρεσβῠτερῐ́οιν toîn presbuteríoin	τοῖς πρεσβῠτερῐ́οις toîs presbuteríois
Accusative	τὸ πρεσβῠτέρῐον tò presbutérion	τὼ πρεσβῠτερῐ́ω tṑ presbuteríō	τᾰ̀ πρεσβῠτέρῐᾰ tà presbutéria
Vocative	πρεσβῠτέρῐον presbutérion	πρεσβῠτερῐ́ω presbuteríō	πρεσβῠτέρῐᾰ presbutéria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: presbytery
• → Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌶𐌱𐍅𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹 (praizbwtairei)
• Greek: πρεσβυτέριο (presvytério)
• → Latin: presbyterium

References

• “πρεσβυτέριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρεσβυτέριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρεσβυτέριον 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
• G4244 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible