One way to hold this word: a group of church elders. Everything else it names belongs to those elders — the meetings they hold together, the area their churches cover, the part of the building kept for them, and the house one of them lives in. When you meet the word, ask what of the clergy's it is pointing at.
From the word’s history
The supplied source traces the word to Late Latin presbyterium and Greek presbyterion, a group of presbyters, from presbyteros, an elder; by surface analysis presbyter + -y. The elder is still the middle of every modern use.
手上的來源說這個字來自晚期拉丁文 presbyterium、希臘文 presbyterion（長老們），底下是 presbyteros（長老）；拆開來看就是 presbyter + -y。今天每一個意思的中心，都還是那位長老。
supplied packet: Wiktionary etymology for presbytery (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1181481860)
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。