diaconus

dĭācŏnus, i (collat. form in plur.:

• diacones, Vulg. Tim. 3, 8; 12: diaconibus, id. Phil. 1, 1), m., = διάκονος, in eccl. Lat., a servant or minister of the church, a deacon, Tert. Praescr. 3; Cod. Just. 1, 3, 6 et saep. —dĭācŏnissa, ae, f., a deaconess, Cod. Just. 1, 3, 9; Orell. Inscr. 4872 al.

diāconus, ī, m. (διάκονος), der Kirchendiener, der Diakonus, Amm. 14, 9, 7. Cod. Theod. 12, 1, 121 u. Eccl.: diacōnus gemessen, Ven. Fort. 4, 15, 3 u.a. Eccl.: Nbf. zaconus (als Beiname), Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 2654.

diaconus [LL] 1 deacon; b (attached to higher cleric); c (cardinal); d (‘cardinal’ in non-technical sense). antiqui patres xii [sc. annos] presbitero et vii diacono poenitentiae statuere Gildas Pen. 5; in ordinatione presbiteri sive ~i oportet episcopum missas celebrare Theod. Pen. II 3. 2; [Cedd], accepto gradu episcopatus, presbyteros et ~os ordinavit Bede HE III 22; [Christus] ~us fuit quando confregit v panes in v milia hominum ‥; ~us namque oportet ministrare ad altare et evangelium legere in aecclesia, baptizare et communicare in vice presbiteri, peregrinorum pedes lavare et mortuorum corpora sepelire Egb. Pont. 10; 786 nullus episcoporum presbiterum aut ~um ordinare praesumat nisi probatae vitae fuerint Alcuin Ep. 3 p. 22; 838 signum manus Eadberhti ~i CS 421; ~us vel levita, diacon Ælf. Gl.; ad majorem missam ~us et subdiaconus casulis sint induti Lanfr. Const. 91; in eadem villa est quidam ~us habens xxx acras et quartam partem ecclesiae DB I 93v; 1125 (v. archidiaconus); hos [levitas] etiam ecclesia ~os, id est ‘ministros’, nuncupat, quia sacerdotibus ministrant; horum officium est in ecclesia evangelium [legere], sacrificium in altari componere, sanguinem Domini distribuere, licentiam populo abeundi dare et, si necesse est, predicare et baptizare Gir. PI I 19 p. 112; officium ‥ ~i est oblationes ‥ disponere in altari et vinum infundere Hales Sent. IV 409; Bracton 124 (v. apostatare b); 1376 in solucione ‥ pro salario diachoni et subdiachoni ministrancium in dicta ecclesia ExchScot 337; prelati, sacerdotes vel ~i [ME: dekenis] non habebunt officia secularia Concl. Loll. XXXVII 742; diaconus [gl.: decone], subdiaconus, exorsista, benedictus (Vers.) WW.  b [Gregorius] cum ~o suo Petro conloquens Bede HE I 1 p. 74; Bercthun, ~us quondam ejus [Johannis episcopi] Ib. V 2 (cf. Folc. V. J. Bev. 11: Sigga ejus [J. episcopi] ~us); sextus [gradus aecclesiasticus est] ~us, id est ‘minister’, qui ministrat presbytero ‥; nam sacerdos sine ~o nomen habet, sed officium non habet Ælf. Ep. 2.  c 1142 (v. cardinalis 3a); s1176 Hugo Petrileonis, S. Angeli ~us cardinalis et apostolice sedis legatus ‥, infausta navigatione transvectus in Anglia ‥, receptus est Wintonie Diceto YH 402; s1191 Jacinctus inter ~os ecclesie Romane primus ‥ se fieri papam ‥ consensit Ib. II 89; ~i cardinales habentur ibidem [Rome] xviij preter subdiaconos et acolytos in capella domini papae quam plurimos Gir. Spec. IV 6; 1345 domini G. de Mota, tituli S. Lucie in Cilicia, ‥ sacrosancte Romane ecclesie ~i cardinalis MunAcOx 149.  d Egb. Pont. 120, GAS 549 (v. cardinalis 3b). 2 (Sc.) ‘deacon’, (president) of incorporated craft. 1569 collectorem aut magistrum hospitalitatis annuatim per ministrum et seniores ‥ nostri burgi [Perth] tempore electionis eorum seniorum et deaconorum nominandum et eligendum Scot. Grey Friars II 208. 3 (by conf.) rural dean. Cf. decanus 8. 1273 subicio me ‥ jurisdiccioni episcoporum Sanctiandree et Glasguensis et eorum officialium, archidiac[on]orum et ~orum Cart. Coldstream 9.

dĭācŏnus, ī, m. (διάκονος), diacre : Hier. Ep. 51, 1.

*diaconus, i. m.
六品生。副祭。

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