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Christus.

Christ (Jesus seen as the messiah)

8 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈkʁɪstʊs/
  1. Christ (Jesus seen as the messiah)

    masculine · proper-noun · strong
    Christus, erbarme dich unser.
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin Christus. Widely displaced the inherited form Christ (from Middle High German Krist) since the 16th century, as the latter had become a homonym of the word for “Christian” (Middle High German kriste(n)).

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