Deipara

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.

    "It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Deipara, from Deus (“god”) + pariō (“I bear [offspring]”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives), calque of Koine Greek Θεοτόκος (Theotókos, “birth-giver of God”).

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