sacrament

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹəmənt/

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Noun

sacrament (plural sacraments)

1. (Christianity) A sacred act or ceremony in Christianity. In Catholic theology, a sacrament is defined as "an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace."
2. (in particular) The Eucharist.
3. The consecrated Eucharist (especially the bread).
4. A thing which is regarded as possessing a sacred character or mysterious significance.
   • 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year, "The Faith and Patience of the Saints"

     God sometimes sent a light of fire, and pillar of a cloud […] and the sacrament of a rainbow, to guide his people through their portion of sorrows.

5. The oath of allegiance taken by soldiers in Ancient Rome; hence, any sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.

   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     I'll take the sacrament on 't.

Translations

sacred act or ceremony

• Armenian: խորհուրդ (hy) (xorhurd)
• Catalan: sagrament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖事 (zh), 圣事 (zh) (shèngshì), 聖禮 (zh), 圣礼 (zh) (shènglǐ)

• Chuukese: sakramen
• Czech: svátost (cs) f
• Danish: sakramente n
• Dutch: sacrament (nl) n
• Esperanto: sakramento
• Finnish: sakramentti (fi)
• French: sacrement (fr) m
• Galician: sacramento (gl) m
• Georgian: ზიარება (ziareba)
• German: Sakrament (de) n
• Greek: μυστήριο (el) n (mystírio)
• Ido: sakramento (io)
• Indonesian: sakramen (id)
• Interlingua: sacramento
• Italian: sacramento (it) m
• Korean: 성사 (ko) (seongsa)

• Latin: sacrāmentum n
• Low German: Sakrament n; n (Paderbornisch), n (Sauerländisch)
• Macedonian: све́та та́јна f (svéta tájna)
• Maori: hākarameta
• Norman: sacrément m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sakrament n

  Nynorsk: sakrament n

• Plautdietsch: Sakrament n
• Polish: sakrament (pl) m
• Portuguese: sacramento (pt) m
• Russian: та́инство (ru) n (táinstvo), сакрамент (ru) m (sakrament)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сакра̀мент m

  Roman: sakràment (sh) m

• Spanish: sacramento (es) m
• Swedish: sakrament (sv) n
• Tagalog: galimbanal, sakramento
• Turkish: kutsantı
• Vietnamese: bí tích

Verb

sacrament (third-person singular simple present sacraments, present participle sacramenting, simple past and past participle sacramented)

1. (transitive) To bind by an oath.

See also

• Catholic and Eastern churches have seven sacraments: baptism; confirmation; communion, Mass, or Eucharist; penance; extreme unction (Anointing of the Sick, last rites); holy orders / ordination; and matrimony.
• Protestant churches list two sacraments: baptism and Lord's Supper.
• Eucharistic liturgy
• Holy Eucharist
• Holy Sacrament
• Liturgy
• Lord's Supper
• sacrament on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old French sacrament, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaː.kraːˈmɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sa‧cra‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

sacrament n (plural sacramenten)

1. (Christianity) sacrament

Derived terms

• laatste sacramenten
• sacramenteel
• sacramentsaltaar
• Sacramentsdag

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sakramen