Kirchenvater
German, noun
Kirchenvater is spelled K-I-R-C-H-E-N-V-A-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kirchenvater is a German masculine noun meaning “Church Father (authoritative Christian author)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Kirchenväter is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kirchenvater”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein christlicher Autor der ersten acht Jahrhunderte, der entscheidend zur Lehre und zum Selbstverständnis des…”.
What does Kirchenvater mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineChurch Father (authoritative Christian author)
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kirchenvater
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein christlicher Autor der ersten acht Jahrhunderte, der entscheidend zur Lehre und zum Selbstverständnis des Christentums beigetragen hat; der Ehrentitel Kirchenvater kam im vierten Jahrhundert auf
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kirchenvater
- Kirchenvaters genitive
- Kirchenväter plural
- Kirchenvätern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Kirchenvater in German?
Kirchenvater appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).