sacerdotium
Latin
Etymology
From sacerdōs (“priest”) + -ium (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sa.kɛrˈdoː.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sa.t͡ʃerˈd̪ɔt̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Noun
sacerdōtium n (genitive sacerdōtiī or sacerdōtī); second declension
- An office of priests, priesthood.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sacerdōtium | sacerdōtia |
| genitive | sacerdōtiī sacerdōtī1 |
sacerdōtiōrum |
| dative | sacerdōtiō | sacerdōtiīs |
| accusative | sacerdōtium | sacerdōtia |
| ablative | sacerdōtiō | sacerdōtiīs |
| vocative | sacerdōtium | sacerdōtia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: sacerdoci
- French: sacerdoce
- Friulian: sacerdozi
- Italian: sacerdozio
- Portuguese: sacerdócio
- Romanian: sacerdoțiu
- Spanish: sacerdocio
References
- “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "sacerdotium", 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)
- sacerdotium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- sacerdotium, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011