parabolanus

Latin parabolanus

parabolanus (plural parabolani)

1. (historical, Christianity) In the early Eastern Church, a lay assistant to the clergy for tending the sick.
   • 1880, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, volume 3, page 1551:

     In the quarrel between Cyril and Orestes, A.D. 416, the parabolani, zealously espousing the cause of their bishop, threw the city of Alexandria into such confusion that the inhabitants despatched an envoy to Theodosius II., begging him to issue a prohibition for the bishop to leave Alexandria, as his was the only authority by which their violence could be checked.

parabolus (“a daredevil or reckless fellow”) +‎ -ānus (“-ian”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.ra.boˈlaː.nus/, [pa.ra.bɔˈɫaː.nʊs]

parabolānus m (genitive parabolānī); second declension

1. a (male) sick-nurse, especially in infectious diseases

Second declension.

• Ancient Greek: πᾰρᾰβολᾶνοι (parabolânoi)

• părăbŏlānus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parabolanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• parabolanus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 05.10.04) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• Parabolani on Wikipedia.Wikipedia