baptistry

English

Baptistry in Florence, Italy, a separate building just across from the Duomo

Alternative forms

• baptistery

Etymology

From Middle English baptistery, baptisterie, from Ecclesiastical Latin baptistērium, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion); equivalent to baptism +‎ -ry.

Noun

baptistry (plural baptistries)

1. (Christianity) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
2. An indoor pool used for baptism by immersion.

Related terms

• baptism
• baptist
• baptize

Translations

space where a baptismal font is located

• Bulgarian: баптисте́рий m (baptistérij)
• Catalan: baptisteri m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洗禮堂／洗礼堂 (xǐlǐtáng)

• Czech: baptisterium n
• Danish: dåbskapel n
• Dutch: baptisterium (nl) n, doopkapel (nl) f
• Esperanto: baptisterio
• Estonian: baptisteerium
• Finnish: kastekappeli (fi), baptisterio (fi)
• French: baptistère (fr) m

  Old French: baptisterie f

• Galician: baptisterio (gl) m
• German: Baptisterium (de) n, Taufkapelle (de) f, Taufkirche f
• Greek: βαπτιστήριο n (vaptistírio)
• Hungarian: keresztelőkápolna (hu), baptisztérium (hu)
• Italian: battistero (it) m
• Japanese: 洗礼堂 (せいれいどう, seirei-dō)
• Korean: 세례당 (seryedang)
• Latin: baptistērium
• Macedonian: крстилница f (krstilnica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: baptisterium n, dåpskapell n

• Polish: baptysterium (pl) n
• Portuguese: batistério (pt) m
• Romanian: baptisteri m
• Russian: баптисте́рий (ru) m (baptistérij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: баптистеријум n, баптистериј m, крстионица f

  Roman: baptisterijum n, baptisterij (sh) m, krstionica (sh) f

• Slovak: baptistérium n
• Slovene: krstilnica (sl) f
• Spanish: baptisterio (es) m
• Swedish: baptisterium (sv) n, dopkapell c, dopkyrka (sv) c
• Tagalog: binyagan, bawtisteryo
• Turkish: vaftizhane (tr)
• Ukrainian: баптисте́рій m (baptystérij)

Further reading

• baptistry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia