sacrarius

Latin

Etymology

From sacer (“sacred, holy”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈkraː.ri.us/, [s̠äˈkräːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈkra.ri.us/, [säˈkräːrius]

Noun

sacrārius m (genitive sacrāriī or sacrārī); second declension

1. A sacrist, sacristan, priest

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sacrārius	sacrāriī
genitive	sacrāriī sacrārī1	sacrāriōrum
dative	sacrāriō	sacrāriīs
accusative	sacrārium	sacrāriōs
ablative	sacrāriō	sacrāriīs
vocative	sacrārie	sacrāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• sacer
• sacerdōs
• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtium
• sacerdōtula
• sacrāmentālis
• sacrāmentum
• sacrārium
• sacrātē
• sacrātiō
• sacrātor
• sacricola
• sacrifer
• sacrificālis
• sacrificātiō
• sacrificātor
• sacrificātus
• sacrificiolus
• sacrificium
• sacrificō
• sacrificulus
• sacrificus
• sacrilegē
• sacrilegium
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsanctus
• sacrum

References

• “sacrarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sacrarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.