Pharisaeus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Koine Greek Φᾰρῑσαῖος (Phărīsaîos, Pharisee).

Pronunciation

Noun

Pharī̆saeus m (genitive Pharī̆saeī); second declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) a Pharisee (a member of the Jewish sect of that name)
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, exclusively in the plural, the sect taken as a collective) the Pharisees

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Pharī̆saeus Pharī̆saeī
genitive Pharī̆saeī Pharī̆saeōrum
dative Pharī̆saeō Pharī̆saeīs
accusative Pharī̆saeum Pharī̆saeōs
ablative Pharī̆saeō Pharī̆saeīs
vocative Pharī̆saee Pharī̆saeī

Descendants

  • Danish: farisæer
    • Greenlandic: farisiiari
  • Dutch: farizeeër
  • English: Pharisee
  • Faroese: fariseari
  • Finnish: fariseus
  • Old Francoprovençal: phariseu
    • Franco-Provençal: phariséo
  • French: pharisien
  • German: Pharisäer
  • Hungarian: farizeus
  • Irish: Fairisíneach
  • Italian: fariseo
  • Malay: Farisi
  • Old English: Farisēisc, Pharisēisc
    • Middle English: Farisewisshe, Pharisewisshe
  • Plautdietsch: Farisäa
  • Portuguese: fariseu
  • Romanian: fariseu
  • Russian: фарисей (farisej)
  • Spanish: fariseo

Adjective

Pharisaeus (feminine Pharisaea, neuter Pharisaeum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Pharisaean

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

  • Pharisaicus

References

  • Phărĭsaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Phărĭsæi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,171/3.