sacerdotium

Latin

Etymology

From sacerdōs (“priest”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sa.kerˈdoː.ti.um/, [s̠äkɛrˈd̪oːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.t͡ʃerˈdot.t͡si.um/, [sät͡ʃerˈd̪ɔt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

sacerdōtium n (genitive sacerdōtiī or sacerdōtī); second declension

1. An office of priests, priesthood.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sacerdōtium	sacerdōtia
Genitive	sacerdōtiī sacerdōtī1	sacerdōtiōrum
Dative	sacerdōtiō	sacerdōtiīs
Accusative	sacerdōtium	sacerdōtia
Ablative	sacerdōtiō	sacerdōtiīs
Vocative	sacerdōtium	sacerdōtia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Related terms

• sacer
• sacerdōs
• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtula
• sacrāmentālis
• sacrāmentum
• sacrārium
• sacrārius
• sacrātē
• sacrātiō
• sacrātor
• sacricola
• sacrifer
• sacrificālis
• sacrificātiō
• sacrificātor
• sacrificātus
• sacrificiolus
• sacrificium
• sacrificō
• sacrificulus
• sacrificus
• sacrilegē
• sacrilegium
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsanctus
• sacrum

Descendants

• Catalan: sacerdoci
• French: sacerdoce
• Italian: sacerdozio
• Portuguese: sacerdócio
• Romanian: sacerdoțiu
• Spanish: sacerdocio

References

• “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacerdotium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sacerdotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.