sacramento

See also: Sacramento, sacramentó, and sacramentò

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sacramento, sagramento, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum, from Latin sacrō.

Noun

sacramento m (plural sacramentos)

1. (Christianity) sacrament

Further reading

• “sacramento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kraˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: sa‧cra‧mén‧to

Etymology 1

From Ecclesiastical Latin and Late Latin sacrāmentum, from Latin sacrō.

Noun

sacramento m (plural sacramenti)

1. (Christianity) sacrament

Etymology 2

Verb

sacramento

1. first-person singular present indicative of sacramentare

Latin

Noun

sacrāmentō

1. dative/ablative singular of sacrāmentum

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sagramento (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sacramento, sagramento, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum, from Latin sacrō.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾaˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾaˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾaˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐ.kɾɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: sa‧cra‧men‧to

Noun

sacramento m (plural sacramentos)

1. (Christianity) sacrament

Derived terms

• sacramental

Further reading

• “sacramento” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sakɾaˈmento/ [sa.kɾaˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sa‧cra‧men‧to

Etymology 1

Modified from Old Spanish sagramento, sagramente, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum, from Latin sacrō.

Noun

sacramento m (plural sacramentos)

1. (Christianity, theology) sacrament

Derived terms

• sacramental (“sacramental”)
• sacramentar (“to administer the sacraments”)
• sacramentología (“sacramentology”)

 

Related terms

• sacro
• sagrado
• sagrario

 

Etymology 2

Verb

sacramento

1. first-person singular present indicative of sacramentar

Further reading

• “sacramento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014