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Areopagite

UK /æɹiːˈɒpəɡaɪt/noun

Areopagite is a noun meaning “A member of the ancient-Athenian conciliary court of the Areopagus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-E-O-P-A-G-I-T-E, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Areopagite is Areopagites.

What does Areopagite mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the ancient-Athenian conciliary court of the Areopagus.

    Each year the Athenians elected ten archons from among the rich and noble, and at the end of that year the ten graduated into the Areopagus, where they served for life. […¶] In the year 487/6, however, a new law provided that the archons sh

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Areopagite?

  • UK /æɹiːˈɒpəɡaɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Areopagite

  • Areopagites plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Areopagite?

Areopagite appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Areopagite in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a member of the ancient Athenian conciliary court of the Areopagus:

LanguageWords
Frencharéopagite
Portugueseareopagita

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Areopagite come from?

From the Middle English Ariopagite, Ariopagyte, from the Latin arēopagītes, from the Ancient Greek Ἀρεοπαγίτης (Areopagítēs); equivalent to Areopagus + -ite.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).