syncellus
noun
syncellus is a noun meaning “One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-Y-N-C-E-L-L-U-S, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of syncellus is syncelli.
What does syncellus mean?
noun
- 1
One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of syncellus
- syncelli plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is syncellus?
Syncellus appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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).
Where does syncellus come from?
From Latin syncellus, from Ancient Greek σύγκελλος (súnkellos).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).