dean (senior official in a university or college) · dean (church dignitary in churches, primarily Anglican churches; not really used in Finnish churches)
çekim: çoğul dekaanit · tamlayan dekaanin
köken: Borrowed from Swedish dekan, ultimately from Latin decānus.
dean: · a dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons
çekim: çoğul dekan-dekan
köken: From Dutch decaan (“dean”), from Late Latin decānus.
dean: chief of a faculty or equivalent body in a higher education institution, such as คณบดีคณะนิติศาสตร์ (ká-ná-bɔɔ-dii-ká-ná-ní-dtì-sàat, “dean of law”). · dean: senior member of a group, organisation, etc, such as คณบดีคณะทูต (ká-ná-bɔɔ-dii-ká-ná-tûut, “dean of a diplomatic corps”).
köken: From Sanskrit गणपति (gaṇapati, literally “chief of a group”), from गण (gaṇa, “group”) + पति (pati, “chief; lord; master”); equivalent to Thai คณ (ká-ná-, “group, body; higher education faculty; etc”) + บดี (bɔɔ-dii, “chief; lord; master; leader; commander; etc”). Cognate with Old Khmer gaṇapati (“an epithet of the god Gaṇeśa or Śiva”).
Borrowed from Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem (“ten”). Doublet of deán (“dean”), which was borrowed from Old French, and of the archaic or rare Spanish degano (“head or administrator of a hacienda in the countryside”), which was inherited.