presbyter

From Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Doublet of prester.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹezbɪtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹezbɪtɚ/, /ˈpɹesbɪtɚ/

presbyter (plural presbyters)

1. A priest in various churches.
2. An elder of the Presbyterian church.
3. An elder of the congregation in early Christianity.

• presbyter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpres.by.ter/, [ˈprɛs.bʏ.tɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpres.bi.ter/

presbyter m (genitive presbyterī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, Christianity) an elder, presbyter

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

• presbytera
• presbyterātus

• presbyterium

• presbyter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• presbyter in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016