deaconess

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  1. A non-clerical role for women in some churches.
  2. (rare) A female deacon.
  3. A female servant in the early Christian church.
  4. The nun in charge of the altar in a convent.
  5. One of an order of women in some Protestant churches who nurse the sick and tend the poor.

Έννοιες

διακόνισσα

Μεταφράσεις

Diakonisse

Diakonin

الشمّاسة

kadın diyakoz

diaconessa

Diakonissin

deaconessa

diaconissa

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/ˌdiːkəˈnɛs/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

Inherited from Middle English dekenesse; equivalent to deacon + -ess.

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