天主

Etymology
First attested in True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (《天主實錄》), completed by Italian Jesuit priest and missionary Michele Ruggieri in 1584, as a semantic readaptation of Chinese.

Note is earliest attested in Japanese no later than 1581. The coinage of in Chinese and Japanese around the same time may or may not be coincidental.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Lord of Heaven; God

Descendants
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Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  the Lord of Heaven