Masculine
Christus
Meaning
Christ (Jesus seen as the messiah)
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Cristo
Cristo
Christus
Christus
Cristo
Χριστός
christ Christós
Crist
İsa MesihFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkʁɪstʊs/
Etymology
In summary
Learned borrowing from Latin Christus. Widely displaced the inherited form Christ (from Middle High German Krist) since the 16th century, as the latter had become homophonous with the word for “Christian” (Middle High German kriste(n)).
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