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sacramentum

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin sacrāmentum.

Noun

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sacramentum (plural sacramenta)

  1. (historical) An Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it.

Latin

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Etymology

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From sacrō (consecrate, dedicate, devote) +‎ -mentum, from sacer (sacred, holy) +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sacrāmentum n (genitive sacrāmentī); second declension

  1. A sum of money deposited in pledge by two individuals involved in a suit. The money of the loser in the suit was used for religious purposes.
  2. (military) An oath of allegiance.
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sacrament.
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A mystery, secret.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative sacrāmentum sacrāmenta
genitive sacrāmentī sacrāmentōrum
dative sacrāmentō sacrāmentīs
accusative sacrāmentum sacrāmenta
ablative sacrāmentō sacrāmentīs
vocative sacrāmentum sacrāmenta

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sacramĕntum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 563