sanctimonia

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *sh₂nékti

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Italic *-iō

Proto-Italic *sankiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Proto-Italic *sanktos

Latin sanctus

Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -mōnium

Latin -mōnia

Latin sānctimōnia

From sanctus (“holy, blessed”) + -mōnia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saːŋk.tɪˈmoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saŋk.tiˈmɔː.ni.a]

Noun

sānctimōnia f (genitive sānctimōniae); first declension

1. sanctity
2. virtuousness, chastity

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sānctimōnia	sānctimōniae
genitive	sānctimōniae	sānctimōniārum
dative	sānctimōniae	sānctimōniīs
accusative	sānctimōniam	sānctimōniās
ablative	sānctimōniā	sānctimōniīs
vocative	sānctimōnia	sānctimōniae

References

• “sanctimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sanctimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sanctimonia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sanctimonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.