diacon

• diaco
• diachon

From Ancient Greek διᾱ́κων (diā́kōn), third-declension alternative form of the second-declension noun διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant”) (the source of Latin diāconus).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diˈaː.koːn/, [d̪iˈäːkoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.kon/, [d̪iˈäːkon]

diācōn m (genitive diāconis); third declension

1. Alternative form of diāconus (“deacon”)

Third-declension noun.

• diacon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Latin diāconus, from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ɑː.kon/

diācon m

1. deacon

• Middle English: deken
  • English: deacon
• → Old Norse: djákni, djákn
  • Icelandic: djákni
  • Old Swedish: diäkn, diäkne, däkn
    • Swedish: djäkne

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic диꙗконъ (dijakonŭ), from Ancient Greek διᾱ́κονος (diā́konos, “servant, minister”). (compare Russian диа́кон (diákon)).

• IPA^(key): /diˈa.kon/

diacon m (plural diaconi)

1. deacon :
   1. (Christianity, historical) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
   2. (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.

• DER via diacon in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)