mystes

From Latin mystēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪstiz/

mystes (plural mystae or mystai)

1. (historical) An ancient Roman priest of the secret rites of divine worship.

• mysta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmys.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmis.t̪es]

mystēs m (genitive mystae); first declension

1. a priest of the mystērium (secret rites of divine worship)

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

• → English: mystes (learned)

• “mystes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mystes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mystes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.