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See Paraclete.

• IPA(key): /ˈpæɹəkliːt/

paraclete (plural paracletes)

1. An advocate or helper.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
     He passed a block of bright posters. One of them extolled domestic gas: a smiling toy paraclete called Mr Therm presided over a sort of warm Holy Family.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Paraclete, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.

• paracletic

advocate

• Bulgarian: закрилник (bg) m (zakrilnik)

• Dhivehi: ބާރްޤަލީޠު (bārqalīţu)

• Dutch: parakleet (nl)

• Esperanto: parakleto

• French: paraclet (fr) m

• German: Paraklet (de) m

• Greek: παράκλητος (el) m (paráklitos)
  Ancient Greek: παράκλητος m (paráklētos)

• Hebrew: פְּרַקְלִיט (he) m (p'raqlít)

• Latin: paracletus m

• Persian: فارقلیط (fa)

• Polish: paraklet m

• Portuguese: paráclito (pt) m, paracleto (pt) m

• Russian: паракле́т (ru) m (paraklét)

• Spanish: paráclito m

• Swedish: paraklet c

• Turkish: paraklit

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pa.raˈkɫeː.tɛ]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pa.raˈklɛː.te]

paraclēte

1. vocative singular of paraclētus