sacramentum
Latin
Etymology
From sacrō (“consecrate, dedicate, devote”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + -mentum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sa.kraːˈmen.tum/, [s̠äkräːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.kraˈmen.tum/, [säkräˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
sacrāmentum n (genitive sacrāmentī); second declension
- A sum of money deposited in pledge by two individuals involved in a suit. The money of the loser in the suit was applied to religious purposes.
- (military) An oath of allegiance.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sacrament.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) A mystery, secret.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
| Genitive | sacrāmentī | sacrāmentōrum |
| Dative | sacrāmentō | sacrāmentīs |
| Accusative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
| Ablative | sacrāmentō | sacrāmentīs |
| Vocative | sacrāmentum | sacrāmenta |
Derived terms
Related terms
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Descendants
- Asturian: sacramentu
- Catalan: sagrament
- English: sacrament
- French: sacrement, serment
- Italian: sacramento
- Norwegian: sakrament
- Old French: sairement
- Polish: sakrament
- Portuguese: sacramento
- Romanian: sacrament
- Spanish: sacramento
References
- “sacramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacramentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacramentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sacramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take the military oath: sacramentum (o) dicere (vid. sect. XI. 2, note sacramentum...)
- to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
- to take the military oath: sacramentum (o) dicere (vid. sect. XI. 2, note sacramentum...)
- “sacramentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sacramentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin