# προφήτης
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* προφάτας (prophátas) — Doric, Boeotian

### Etymology

From προ- (pro-, “before”) +‎ φημί (phēmí, “I say”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, masculine agent-noun suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pro.pʰɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /proˈɸi.tis/ → /proˈfi.tis/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pro.pʰɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /proˈpʰe̝.te̝s/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /proˈɸi.tis/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /proˈfi.tis/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /proˈfi.tis/

### Noun

προφήτης • (prophḗtēs) m (genitive προφήτου); first declension
* one who speaks for and interprets the will of a god: prophet, seer
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 19:Διὸς προφήτης δ’ ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρόςDiòs prophḗtēs d’ estì Loxías patrósBut Loxias is the spokesman of Zeus, his father.
* one of the keepers of the oracle at Branchidae
* priest at an Egyptian temple
* one who interprets the ravings of a μάντις (mántis, “oracle”)
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 72a:ὅθεν δὴ καὶ τὸ τῶν προφητῶν γένος ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐνθέοις μαντείαις κριτὰς ἐπικαθιστάναι νόμοςhóthen dḕ kaì tò tôn prophētôn génos epì taîs enthéois manteíais kritàs epikathistánai nómosWherefore also it is customary to set the tribe of prophets to pass judgement upon these inspired divinations.
* interpreter, proclaimer
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 211:ἐπεὶ σὺ φέγγος, Τειρεσία, τόδ’ οὐχ ὁρᾷς, ἐγὼ προφήτης σοι λόγων γενήσομαιepeì sù phéngos, Teiresía, tód’ oukh horâis, egṑ prophḗtēs soi lógōn genḗsomaiSince you do not see this light, Teiresias, I will be your interpreter.
* (Christianity) prophet
** 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 14:32:καὶ πνεύματα προφητῶν προφήταις ὑποτάσσεταιkaì pneúmata prophētôn prophḗtais hupotássetaiThe spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
* herbalist
** Ps.-Dsc. 1.10

#### Synonyms

* προφήτωρ (prophḗtōr)

#### Derived terms

* ἀρχιπροφήτης (arkhiprophḗtēs)
* προφητάζω (prophētázō)
* προφητεία (prophēteía)
* προφητεύω (prophēteúō)
* προφητίζω (prophētízō)
* προφητικός (prophētikós)
* προφῆτις (prophêtis)
* προφητότοκος (prophētótokos)
* προφήτωρ (prophḗtōr)
* συμπροφητεύω (sumprophēteúō)
* ψευδοπροφήτης (pseudoprophḗtēs)

#### Descendants

* Greek: προφήτης (profítis)
* → Coptic: ⲡⲣⲟⲫⲏⲧⲏⲥ (prophētēs)
* → Gothic: 𐍀𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌴𐍃 (praufētēs)
* → Latin: prophēta (see there for further descendants)

### Further reading

* “προφήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “προφήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* προφήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* G4396 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. diviner idem, page 244.exponent idem, page 295.interpreter idem, page 452.prophet idem, page 653.

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs).

### Noun

προφήτης • (profítis) m (plural προφήτες)
* prophet

#### Derived terms

* προφητεία f (profiteía, “prophecy”)
* προφητεύω (profitévo, “to predict”)
* προφητικός (profitikós, “prophetic”)
* ψευδοπροφήτης (psevdoprofítis)

#### Further reading

* προφήτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$