antistes Latin · revision 33138

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈtɪs.tɛs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [anˈtis.tes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''antistes''' ''m'' or f (genitive antistitis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A nominative ''antistis'' appears in inscriptions.^(OLD 2012)

+ A feminine ''antistita'' also occurs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|antistō|t=to stand before, excel]], a form of [[m|la|antestō]], made of [[m|la|ante|t=before]] and [[m|la|stō|t=to stand]]: one who stands before, a president.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it in the speech on his house of the priests who have charge of ceremonies and rites, and in the ''De divinatione'' of the keepers of the Sibylline books.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short find the general sense, an overseer, rare, as Columella has of the vintagers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its usual sense is a high priest or priestess, with the genitive of the rite or god, and also the mouthpiece of a god.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From that it came to mean a master or authority in an art or school, as in Cicero's ''De oratore'',^(OLD 2012) and Ovid uses it of a patron of learned men.^(OLD 2012) It is masculine and feminine, and there is also a feminine ''antistita''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the glosses it is also equated with Greek ''episcopus'',^(TLL) and in Christian and Medieval Latin it is a bishop, or a priest in the Old Testament.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) Köbler finds it in Aldhelm and Bede.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of priests and of a master of an art.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a patron.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of an overseer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An overseer, [[m|en|president]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|high priest]] or priestess; the mouthpiece of a god.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A master, authoritative teacher (of an art or school).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A protector, [[m|en|patron]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|bishop]]; a priest of the Old Testament.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[antistatus]]

+ * [[antistita]]

+ * [[antistitium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[antistō]]

+ * [[stō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}