Meanings
- ChristianitySynonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
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It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]
1866, John Henry Newman, D.D., A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D. on His Recent Eirenicon, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 66Synonyms: Mother of God, Theotokos, Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.
Origin
- Koine GreekΘεοτόκος“birth-giver of God”
- LatinDeipara
- EnglishDeipara
Borrowed from Latin Deipara, from Deus (“god”) + pariō (“to bear [offspring]”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives), calque of Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “birth-giver of God”).
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