sacrament

English

Etymology

From Middle English sacrament, 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)
• Bulgarian: тайнство (bg) n (tajnstvo)
• 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)
• Hungarian: szentség (hu)
• 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

• Negerhollands: sacrament
• → Indonesian: sakramen

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Romanian

Etymology

From French sacrement, from Latin sacramentum.

Noun

sacrament n (plural sacramente)

1. sacrament

Declension

Declension of sacrament

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sacrament	sacramentul	(niște) sacramente	sacramentele
genitive/dative	(unui) sacrament	sacramentului	(unor) sacramente	sacramentelor
vocative	sacramentule		sacramentelor