priestess

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A woman with religious duties and responsibilities in certain religions.
 * 2)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.
 * 1)  A priest’s wife.

Usage notes
Chiefly with regard to ancient or Pagan religions, or metaphorically. In Protestant denominations that admit women to the priesthood, such as Anglicanism, they are generally referred to as .However it is not unheard of for the Term to be used in Non-denominational Christian, Independant Protestant, and Christian Spiritualist circles. Though still rare.

Translations

 * Belarusian: пападдзя́, пападзьдзя́ , пападзі́ха
 * Bulgarian: попади́я
 * Greek:
 * Latin: presbytera
 * Macedonian: попадија
 * Old Norse: prestkona
 * Ottoman Turkish: پاپادیا
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: попа̀дија
 * Roman:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian: քրմուհի
 * Belarusian: жры́ца, свята́рка, свяшчэ́ннiца
 * Bulgarian:, свеще́ничка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 女教士, 女祭司
 * Czech:
 * Danish: præstinde
 * Dutch:, priesterin
 * Esperanto: pastrino
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἱέρεια
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bansagart
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 女祭司, 女教士
 * Korean: 여자 사제(女子司祭)
 * Latin:, sacerdotessa, antistita
 * Latvian: priesteriene
 * Macedonian: свеште́ничка
 * Nahuatl:
 * Classical: cihuatlamacazqui
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prestinne
 * Nynorsk: prestinne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: sacerdotisa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: kňažka
 * Slovene: svečenica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎅𐎐𐎚
 * Ukrainian: свяще́ниця, жри́ця
 * West Frisian: preesteresse, prysteresse

Verb

 * 1)  To oversee (a pagan ceremony, etc.) as priestess.