Translation
to baptise, to christen
Word origin
From Greek baptizein, to dip or to immerse, from baptein, to dip. The word describes the physical action and nothing else; every theological meaning it now carries was added on top of a verb about putting something in water.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- baptizein
- English cognates
- baptise, baptism, Baptist
Examples
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The priest baptised the child in the church.
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They baptised the baby in the river.
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He was baptised in the same church as his father.
A ceremony , and the ceremony is in the etymology. is to
baptise. The Greek underneath means simply to dip, which is why the churches
that immerse rather than sprinkle are the Baptists in English and oj
here. The verb is transitive and takes the person as its object: , and the passive is how most people describe their own.
The family is entirely regular and unusually useful. Bapto is the act,
o the state of being baptised, o or baptopelvo the font. The
compounds are where it earns its place: is a godfather,
o a godmother, baptofilo a godson, baptonomo the Christian name
or given name, which is the ordinary Esperanto word for a first name in the
religious register. i is to rebaptise.
Who does it. In practice the pastro or, in a Protestant church, the pastoro four ranks earlier in this band. The building is the preĝejo, the institution the eklezio, and the event itself a ceremonio.
One secular use to know. As in English, you can baptise a ship or a nickname:
, they christened the ship Espero. That is the same
verb and the same joke, borrowed by every European language from the same source
at roughly the same time.
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