Priester

Etymology
From, from , borrowed around 700 (after the , but before the diphthongisation of West Germanic ē) from pre-, from , from. . Immediately cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬. An earlier West Germanic word for “priest” is, which remained in use alongside during the Middle Ages, but has had a pejorative tone since the Reformation.

Noun

 * 1)  priest
 * 2)  priest, presbyter man who has received the sacrament of ordination
 * 3)  priest every believer
 * 1)  priest every believer

Usage notes

 * is also taught by the Catholic Church, which however distinguishes between different degrees of priesthood and uses the word, like the English word , chiefly in the narrower sense as above.

Noun

 * 1) priest