messianic

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛsaɪˈænɪk/

Adjective

messianic (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a messiah or the Messiah.
   • 2023 October 22, Tom Phillips, Uki Goñi, “‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Speaking this week, Pope Francis sent a thinly veiled warning about the dangers of “pied piper of Hamelin”-style populists and “messianic clowns”. “There is only one Messiah,” the pope said, without naming Milei.

2. Of, relating to, or resembling messianism.

Related terms

• messiahship, Messiahship
• messian, Messian
• Messianic Judaism
• messianism, Messianism
• messianity, Messianity

 

Translations

of, relating to, or resembling a messiah or the Messiah

• Arabic: مَسِيحَانِيّ (masīḥāniyy)
• Asturian: mesiánicu
• Belarusian: месія́нскі (mjesijánski)
• Catalan: messiànic (ca)
• Czech: mesiášský
• Danish: messiansk
• Esperanto: mesia, maŝiaĥa
• Finnish: messiaaninen (fi)
• French: messianique (fr)
• Galician: mesiánico
• German: messianisch
• Hebrew: מְשִׁיחִי (meshikhí)
• Irish: meisiasach
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: messiansk

  Nynorsk: messiansk

• Polish: mesjański (pl)
• Portuguese: messiânico (pt)
• Russian: мессиа́нский (ru) (messiánskij)
• Spanish: mesiánico
• Swedish: messiansk (sv)
• Ukrainian: месіа́нський (mesiánsʹkyj)
• Volapük: mäsiatik, Mäsiatik

of, relating to, or resembling messianism

• Asturian: mesiánicu
• Belarusian: месія́нскі (mjesijánski)
• Esperanto: mesianisma, mesiisma
• Galician: mesianismo m, mesiánico
• German: messianisch
• Irish: meisiasach
• Polish: mesjański (pl), mesjanistyczny (pl), mesjaniczny (pl)
• Russian: мессиа́нский (ru) (messiánskij)
• Ukrainian: месіа́нський (mesiánsʹkyj)