Uniate

See also: uniate

English

Alternative forms

• Uniat

Etymology

See Uniat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.nɪ.ət/
• (General American) enPR: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt', yo͞oʹnē-āt'; IPA^(key): /ˈju.niˌɪt/, /ˈju.niˌeɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt, -eɪt
• Hyphenation: Uni‧ate

Adjective

Uniate (not comparable) (sometimes pejorative)

1. Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
2. Of or pertaining to Uniates.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.

Translations

of or pertaining to a Uniate Church

• Polish: unicki (pl), uniacki (pl)

of or pertaining to Uniates

• Polish: unicki (pl), uniacki (pl)

Noun

Uniate (plural Uniates) (sometimes pejorative)

1. A member of a Uniate Church.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.

Synonyms

• Eastern Catholic

Hypernyms

• Catholic

Hyponyms

• Armenian Catholic
• Coptic Catholic
• Eritrean Catholic
• Ethiopian Catholic
• Greek Catholic
• Maronite
• Syriac Catholic

Derived terms

• disuniate
• Uniatism

Translations

member of a Uniate Church

• Polish: unita (pl) m pers, unitka f, uniata (pl) m pers, uniatka f

References

• “Uniate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Bowker, John (2000), “Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “ 'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
• Cross, Frank L., Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), “Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670: “ 'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “Uniate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• "Uniate" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Anagrams

• Auntie, auntie