prozymite
/ˈpɹɑzəˌmaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread, in particular a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Derogatory
noun
Alternative letter-case form of prozymite.
Example Sentences
- "Whosever shall obstinately blame the faith of the Holy See of Rome and its sacrifices, let him be anathema, and let him not be deemed Catholic, but a prozymite heretic, that is to say, Defender of the Leaven."
- "The inclusion not only of [Michael I] Cerularius, but of all his followers, and the denunciation of the Greeks as prozymite heretics, does look like a condemnation of the whole Byzantine church until it should change its practices."
- "For example, Greeks using leavened bread for the consecration, were in opposition with the unleavened bread of the Latin Church, and stigmatised as fermentarians or prozymites."
Etymology
Borrowed from German Prozymit, from Medieval Latin prozymīta, from Byzantine Greek προζυμίτης (prozumítēs), from Ancient Greek προζύμιον (prozúmion, “leaven”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming masculine nouns meaning being connected to or a member of something, or coming from a particular place). προζύμιον is derived from προ- (pro-, suffix meaning ‘before, in front’) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven, yeast”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). The English word is analysable as, by surface analysis, pro- + zym- + -ite.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Prozymit, prozymīta, προζυμίτης, προζύμιον
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹɑzəˌmaɪt/
- British English: /ˈpɹɒzɪmaɪt/