deacon (person involved in an ecclesiastical lay office for social affairs and charity) · deacon (male in an unordained clerical office qualified for parish work)
çekim: çoğul diakenen
köken: Inherited from Middle Dutch diaken, from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”).
deacon (a designated minister of charity in the early Church) · deacon (a clergyman ranked directly below a priest) · deacon (lay leader of a Protestant congregation)
çekim: çoğul diáconos
köken: Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos).
deacon : · A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
çekim: çoğul diaconi · tamlayan diaconului
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic диꙗконъ (dijakonŭ), from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”). (compare Russian диа́кон (diákon)).
köken: From Middle Irish deccánach (“dean”), from decán, from a conflation of Latin diaconus (“deacon, minister”) and decānus (“leader of ten people”).