FromLatinantistes(“bishop”).
antistes
- (now historical) The chief minister of the Swiss Reformed Church in a given canton, from the sixteenth to the nineteeth centuries.
2003,Deirdre Bair,Jung, Little, Brown & Co., page16:One of the reasonsAntistes Samuel was first attracted to Gustele Faber was her “second sight.”
2013, Sugiko Nishikawa, “The World of JC Werndli”, in Jane McKee, editor,The Huguenots, Sussex Academic Press, published2014, page169:Anton Klingler, theAntistes of Zurich, recommended him for preferment in the Church of England as a “speedy reward” for his past service.
Fromantistō(“stand before”) +-es(“going”).
antistes m orf (genitiveantistitis);third declension
- overseer
- high priest
- Synonym:pontifex m
- master (of an art)
- Synonym:magister m
- bishop
- Synonym:episcopus m
- (female)overseer,chiefpriestess
Third-declension noun.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
antistēs
- second-personsingularpresentactivesubjunctive ofantistō
- “antistes”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “antistes”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "antistes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “antistes”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
