acolyte
pronunciation
How to pronounce acolyte in British English:
UK [ˈækəlaɪt]
How to pronounce acolyte in American English:
US [ˈækəˌlaɪt]
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- Noun:
- someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
Word Origin
- acolyte
- acolyte: [14] Acolyte comes, via Old French and/or medieval Latin, from Greek akólouthos ‘following’. This was formed from the prefix a- (which is related to homos ‘same’) and the noun keleuthos ‘path’, and it appears again in English in anacolouthon [18] (literally ‘not following’), a technical term for lack of grammatical sequence. The original use of acolyte in English was as a minor church functionary, and it did not acquire its more general meaning of ‘follower’ until the 19th century.=> anacolouthon
- acolyte (n.)
- early 14c., "inferior officer in the church," from Old French acolite or directly from Medieval Latin acolytus (Late Latin acoluthos), from Greek akolouthos "following, attending on," literally "having one way," from a- "together with," copulative prefix, + keleuthose "a way, road, path, track," from PIE *qeleu- (cognates: Lithuanian kelias "way"). In late Old English as a Latin word.
Example
- 1. They shake hands . The icon and the acolyte .
- 2. He or she was an acolyte of saint patrick .
- 3. Nowyou want to become my acolyte .
- 4. Grandmother chen and the " acolyte " had already stolen away .
- 5. The acolyte get acoustic elements from the acorn .