Terminologia prawosławna w języku polskim (na przykładzie nazw osób duchownych)

Anna Rygorowicz-Kuźma

Białystok

Abstrakt

The article focuses on the designations of the Orthodox clergymen (clergy, monks and laic
persons with lowest level of consecration), which are present in a modern Polish language. Majori-
ty of them are the Old-Church-Slavonic borrowings as: archijerej / archirej, igumen, schimnik or
the Greek borrowings as: riasoforos, hierodiakon, metropolita. Interesting is the fact of adaptation
in the Polish Orthodox terminology the borrowings from the Roman catholic terminology of Latin
provenience, for example wikariusz, ordynariusz, kapelan, ect. In a parallel use we can met very
often names from this three sources as: ipodiakon (slav.) hypodiakon (gr.) subdiakon (lat.),
paramonarz (gr.) ponomar (slav.), cztiec (slav.) lektor (lat.), ect.