"hierophant" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhaɪəɹəˌfænt/, /ˈhaɪɹəˌfænt/ Forms: hierophants [plural], hierophantes [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|id=shine}}, {{af|grc|ἱερός|φαίνω|nocat=1|t1=holy|t2=I show, make known}} ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”), {{bor|en|grc|ἱεροφάντης|pos=from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">ἱερός</i> (hierós, “holy”) + <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">φαίνω</i> (phaínō, “I show, make known”)}} Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|hierophantes}} hierophant (plural hierophants or hierophantes)
  1. (Ancient Greece) An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Categories (topical): Ancient Greece, Cartomancy Translations (ancient Greek priest): първожрец (pǎrvožrec) [masculine] (Bulgarian), hierofanta [masculine] (Catalan), ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ (hierophantēs) (Coptic), opperpriester (Dutch), hierofant (Estonian), hierofantti (Finnish), hiérophante [masculine] (French), Hierophant [masculine] (German), ιεροφάντης (ierofántis) [masculine] (Greek), hierofáns (Hungarian), ierofante [masculine] (Italian), 聖師 (seishi, shōshi) (Japanese), ierofanta (Occitan), hierofante [masculine] (Portuguese), hierofant [masculine] (Romanian), иерофант (ijerofant) [masculine] (Russian), jerufanti [masculine] (Sicilian), hierofante [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-hierophant-en-noun-7TVdWJYV Disambiguation of Cartomancy: 43 47 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with hiero-, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Coptic translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Sicilian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 7 17 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with hiero-: 51 26 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 70 12 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 7 20 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 5 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 79 3 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 67 15 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 71 13 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Coptic translations: 66 20 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 69 11 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 63 17 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 68 14 18 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 70 11 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 70 11 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 84 9 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 63 21 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 72 9 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 72 9 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 74 10 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 65 17 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 68 14 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 72 9 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 71 13 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 74 7 19 Disambiguation of 'ancient Greek priest': 93 5 2
  2. An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge. Categories (topical): Cartomancy Translations (interpreter of sacred mysteries): ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ (hierophantēs) (Coptic), hiërofant (Dutch), hiérophante [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-hierophant-en-noun-iYsNnljq Disambiguation of Cartomancy: 43 47 10 Disambiguation of 'interpreter of sacred mysteries': 35 63 3
  3. One who explains or makes a commentary. Translations (one who explains or makes a commentary): hiérophante [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-hierophant-en-noun-kyy04w3M Disambiguation of 'one who explains or makes a commentary': 13 1 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hierophantic, hierophantically Related terms: hierophany, hieromnemon

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Alternative forms

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        "pos": "from <i class=\"Polyt mention\" lang=\"grc\">ἱερός</i> (hierós, “holy”) + <i class=\"Polyt mention\" lang=\"grc\">φαίνω</i> (phaínō, “I show, make known”)"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”))",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hierophants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hierophantes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "hierophantes"
      },
      "expansion": "hierophant (plural hierophants or hierophantes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hierophany"
    },
    {
      "word": "hieromnemon"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Ancient Greece"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 59:",
          "text": "The exhibition of ancient statues, relics, and symbols, concealed from daily adoration (as in the Catholic festivals of this day), probably, made a main duty of the Hierophant.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "If books are as provocative as you suggest, one would expect every librarian to utter the shrill screams of a hierophant, to clash ecstatic castanets in his silent alcoves!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351:",
          "text": "Most scholars name the rectangular enclosure anaktoron, locate in it the throne of the hierophant, and suppose that from it emanated the central revelation which occurred, in Plutarch's phrase, ‘when the anaktora were opened’.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Ancient Greece",
          "Ancient Greece"
        ],
        [
          "sacred",
          "sacred"
        ],
        [
          "mysteries",
          "mystery"
        ],
        [
          "Eleusinian Mysteries",
          "Eleusinian Mysteries"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Ancient Greece",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ancient Greece) An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Arthur Machen, Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt:",
          "text": "Thus I became the hierophant of those three worthy and talented men, who, in spite of their literary accomplishments, were not wise, since they were infatuated with occult and fabulous sciences, and believed in the existence of phenomena impossible in the moral as well as in the physical order of things.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 145:",
          "text": "What did even the hierophants of science know of the potencies of, for them, unvintageable evil?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Peter Porter, “Baroque Quatrains Dedicated to James Fenton”, in Living in a Calm Country:",
          "text": "Ambassadors of northern countries stand / Impassive while our hierophants intone / Long canticles of Christ the Contraband: / Our grandees' hearts are shrunk to kidney stones.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Peter Porter, “A Tribute to my enemies”, in The Automatic Oracle:",
          "text": "No, I must play creator / And make them up, these hierophants.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "arcane",
          "arcane"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who explains or makes a commentary."
      ],
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        [
          "explain",
          "explain"
        ],
        [
          "commentary",
          "commentary"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaɪəɹəˌfænt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhaɪɹəˌfænt/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pǎrvožrec",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "първожрец"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hierofanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "cop",
      "lang": "Coptic",
      "roman": "hierophantēs",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "opperpriester"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "hierofant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "hierofantti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hiérophante"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hierophant"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ierofántis",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ιεροφάντης"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "hierofáns"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ierofante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seishi, shōshi",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "聖師"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "word": "ierofanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hierofante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hierofant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ijerofant",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "иерофант"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jerufanti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ancient Greek priest",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hierofante"
    },
    {
      "code": "cop",
      "lang": "Coptic",
      "roman": "hierophantēs",
      "sense": "interpreter of sacred mysteries",
      "word": "ϩⲓⲉⲣⲟⲫⲁⲛⲧⲏⲥ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "interpreter of sacred mysteries",
      "word": "hiërofant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "interpreter of sacred mysteries",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hiérophante"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who explains or makes a commentary",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hiérophante"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "hierophant"
  ],
  "word": "hierophant"
}

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