Etymology

antistes

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Today it means: The chief minister of the Swiss Reformed Church in a given canton, from the sixteenth to the nineteeth centuries. Full definition →

Latin antistes
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  1. Latin · derived fromantistes“bishop”
  2. English todayantistes

From Latin antistes (“bishop”).

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