Sacramento

See also: sacramento, sacramentó, and sacramentò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sacramento (“sacrament”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsækɹəˈmɛntoʊ/, /ˌsækɹəˈmɛnoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsækɹəˈmɛntəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Proper noun

Sacramento

2. The capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County.

   Synonyms: (informal) Sac, (informal) Sactown, (informal) Sacratomato, (informal) Sacto, (informal) Big Tomato, (informal) Camellia City, (informal) River City

   • 2022 April 4, Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan, Stella Chan and Cheri Mossburg, “All 6 victims killed in the Sacramento mass shooting are identified as police arrest a suspect”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2022:

     Police on Monday said they have arrested one man who is a suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 others.

3. (metonymic) The Californian government.
5. A major river in northern California.

   Synonym: Sacramento River

Derived terms

• Sacramentan
• Sacramentarian
• Sacramento County
• Sacramento pikeminnow
• Sacramento River
• Sacramento Valley
• Suckramento

Translations

Sacramento, the capital city of California

• Arabic: سَكْرَامِنْتُو m (sakrāmentū), سَكْرَامِنْتُو m (sakrāmintū), ساكرامنتو m (sākrāmintū)
• Armenian: Սակրամենտո (Sakramento)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩克拉門托 / 萨克拉门托 (zh) (Sàkèlāméntuō)

• Danish: Sacramento
• Dutch: Sacramento n
• Finnish: Sacramento (fi)
• French: Sacramento (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Sacramento n, Sakraminto n

• Galician: Sacramento (gl) m
• Greek: Σακραμέντο (el) (Sakraménto)
• Hebrew: סקרמנטו f, סאקרמנטו f
• Italian: Sacramento (it)
• Japanese: サクラメント (Sakuramento)
• Khmer: សាក្រាមេនតូ (saakraameintou)
• Latin: Sacrāmentum n
• Lithuanian: Sakramentas m
• Marathi: सॉक्रामेंटो n (sŏkrāmeṇṭo)
• Portuguese: Sacramento (pt)
• Russian: Сакраменто (ru) m (Sakramento)
• Scots: Sacramento
• Spanish: Sacramento m
• Thai: แซคราเมนโต (sɛɛ-kraa-men-dtôo)
• Ukrainian: Сакраменто m (Sakramento)

See also

• Colonia del Sacramento

Anagrams

• estramacon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kʁa.mɛn.to/

Proper noun

Sacramento m

1. Sacramento, the capital city of California, United States.

Latin

Proper noun

Sacrāmentō

1. dative/ablative singular of Sacrāmentum

Portuguese

Etymology

From sacramento (“sacrament”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English Sacramento.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾaˈmẽ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sa.kɾɐˈmẽ.tu/

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Homophone: sacramento
• Hyphenation: Sa‧cra‧men‧to

Proper noun

Sacramento f (demonym sacramentano)

1. a municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil
2. Sacramento (the capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County)

Spanish

Etymology

From sacramento (“sacrament”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sakɾaˈmento/ [sa.kɾaˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: Sa‧cra‧men‧to

Proper noun

Sacramento m (demonym sacramentés)

1. Sacramento (the capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County)
   • 2026 May 2, Alisha Ebrahimji, “Su asesinato estuvo sin resolverse durante 30 años. El sospechoso había desaparecido, hasta ahora”, in CNN en Español‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 May 2026:

     Su repentina desaparición en 1991 conmocionó a los residentes de Granite Bay, un suburbio de Sacramento donde la madre de dos hijos de 35 años había ido a limpiar la casa de su hermana, dijeron los investigadores.

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