sexton

See also: Sexton

English

WOTD – 4 June 2012

Etymology

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.stən/

• Audio (AU)

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• Hyphenation: sex‧ton

Noun

sexton (plural sextons)

1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
2. A sexton beetle.

Synonyms

• sacristan

Translations

church official

• Armenian: եկեղեցու պահակ (ekełecʿu pahak), ժամկոչ (hy) (žamkočʿ) (bell-ringer), գերեզմանափոր (hy) (gerezmanapʿor) (gravedigger)
• Belarusian: царко́ўны вартаўні́к m (carkóŭny vartaŭník)
• Catalan: sagristà (ca) m
• Czech: kostelník (cs) m
• Dutch: koster (nl) m
• Finnish: suntio (fi)
• French: sacristain (fr) m, sacriste (fr) m
• Gallo: bedaou m
• German: Küster (de) m, Küsterin (de) f, Sigrist m (Switzerland), Sigristin f
• Greek: νεωκόρος (el) m (neokóros), εκκλησάρης (el) m (ekklisáris)
• Hungarian: sekrestyés (hu)
• Irish: cléireach m
• Italian: sagrestano (it) m, sacrestano (it) m

• Latin: sēcrētārius m (Mediaeval)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klokker (no) m, sakristan m

  Nynorsk: klokkar m

• Polish: zakrystian (pl) m
• Portuguese: sacristão (pt) m
• Romanian: paracliser (ro) m, sacristan (ro) m, pălămar (ro) m (regional)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} церко́вный сто́рож m (cerkóvnyj stórož)
• Serbo-Croatian: crkvenjak (sh) m, sakristan (sh) m
• Slovak: kostolník m
• Slovene: cerkovnik m, mežnar m
• Spanish: sacristán (es) m
• Swedish: kyrkvaktmästare c
• Turkish: zangoç (tr)
• Welsh: clochydd m (bellringer), torrwr beddau m (gravedigger)

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Swedish

Swedish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sexton     Ordinal : sextonde

Etymology

From Old Swedish sæxtan, siæxtān, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌtɔn/

• audio

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Numeral

sexton

1. sixteen

Related terms

• sextonde
• sextondel