sagramentu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sacramentu

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum. Compare Italian sacramento. By surface analysis, sagrari (“consacrate”) +‎ -mentu.

Noun

sagramentu m needs inflection

1. sacrament

   Pani e sagramentu cci nn'è a ogni cunventu.

   There's bread and sacrament in each convent.

Derived terms

• sagramentali

 

Descendants

• → Maltese: sagrament

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “sagramentu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 3540–3541
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “sagramentu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 316