sacramentum
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin sacrāmentum.
Noun
editsacramentum (plural sacramenta)
- (historical) An Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom sacrō (“consecrate, dedicate, devote”) + -mentum, from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sa.kraːˈmen.tum/, [s̠äkräːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.kraˈmen.tum/, [säkräˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
editsacrāmentum n (genitive sacrāmentī); second declension
- A sum of money deposited in pledge by two individuals involved in a suit. The money of the loser in the suit was used for religious purposes.
- (military) An oath of allegiance.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sacrament.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) A mystery, secret.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
Genitive | sacrāmentī | sacrāmentōrum |
Dative | sacrāmentō | sacrāmentīs |
Accusative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
Ablative | sacrāmentō | sacrāmentīs |
Vocative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editRelated terms
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance;
- Old Italian: sacramento
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Old Lombard: sagramento
- Piedmontese: sarament
- Romansch: saramaint, sarament
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sagramento
- Old Spanish: sagramiento
- Borrowings:
- → Asturian: sacramentu
- → Dutch: sacrament
- → English: sacrament
- → French: sacrement
- → Norwegian: sakrament
- → Polish: sakrament
- → Portuguese: sacramento
- → Romanian: sacrament
- → Spanish: sacramento
References
edit- “sacramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacramentum 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)
- sacramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take the military oath: sacramentum (o) dicere (vid. sect. XI. 2, note sacramentum...)
- to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
- to take the military oath: sacramentum (o) dicere (vid. sect. XI. 2, note sacramentum...)
- “sacramentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sacramentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sacramĕntum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563
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