Uniat

See also: uniat

English

Etymology

19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) +‎ -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ăt', yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'; IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.niːˌæt/, /ˈjuː.niːˌɪt/
• Rhymes: -æt, -ɪt
• Hyphenation: U‧ni‧at

Adjective

Uniat (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Uniate [from 19th c.]
   • 1818, [From the two Burjat Nobles to their Prince], “Russia”, in Report - British and Foreign Bible Society, volume 15, London: Bible House, →OCLC, page 192:

     The Greek Uniat Archbishop at Polotzki Johannes Krasszofsky has sent 1970 rubles in bank assignments

   • 1850, John M. Neale, A History of the Holy Eastern Church, volume 1, London [u.a.]: Masters, →OCLC, page 56:

     temporal advantages were held out to the Uniat Greeks: no change was at first enforced

Noun

Uniat (plural Uniats)

1. Alternative spelling of Uniate

   Synonym: Eastern Catholic

   Hypernym: Catholic

   Hyponyms: Armenian Catholic, Coptic Catholic, Eritrean Catholic, Ethiopian Catholic, Greek Catholic, Maronite, Syriac Catholic

   • 1926, “A terrible revenge”, in Constance Garnett, transl., edited by Rudy Panko, Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (The collected works of Nickolay Gogol), New York: A. A. Knopf, translation of Страшная месть [Strašnaja mestʹ] by Nikolai Gogol, →OCLC:

     They are worse than the Uniats: they never look into the church of God

References

• “Uniat”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Uniat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• "Uniat" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Anagrams

• Autin, Ituna, Utian, tui na, tuina