sexton

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Contents

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 4 June 2012

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkstən/
• Hyphenation: sex‧ton

NounEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• sacristan

TranslationsEdit

church official

• Armenian: եկեղեցու պահակ ‎(ekełecʿu pahak), ժամկոչ (hy) ‎(žamkočʿ) (bell-ringer), գերեզմանափոր (hy) ‎(gerezmanapʿor) (gravedigger)
• Belarusian: царкоўны вартаўнік m ‎(carkóŭny vartaŭník)
• Catalan: sagristà (ca) m
• Dutch: koster (nl) m
• Finnish: suntio (fi)
• French: sacristain (fr) m
• Gallo: bedaou m
• German: Küster (de) m, Küsterin f, Sigrist m (Switzerland)
• Greek: νεωκόρος (el) m ‎(neokóros), εκκλησάρης (el) m ‎(ekklisáris)
• Hungarian: sekrestyés (hu)
• Irish: cléireach m
• Italian: sagrestano (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
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} церко́вный сто́рож m ‎(cerkóvnyj stórož)
• Spanish: sacristán (es) m
• Swedish: kyrkvaktmästare c
• Turkish: zangoç (tr)
• Welsh: clochydd m (bellringer), torrwr beddau m (gravedigger)

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌtɔn/

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NumeralEdit

sexton

1. (cardinal) sixteen

Related termsEdit

• sextonde
• sextondel