sacristan

See also: sacristán

English

Etymology

From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. Doublet of sexton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹɪstən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sacristan (plural sacristans)

1. The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
   • 1816, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “(please specify the page)”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], →OCLC:

     And hence the custom and law began
     That still at dawn the sacristan,
     Who duly pulls the heavy bell,
     Five and forty beads must tell
     Between each stroke

   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 32:

     […] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.

   • 1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 10, in Friday's Business‎^[1]:

     The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.

Related terms

• sacrist
• sacristry
• sacristy

Translations

person who maintains the sacristy

• Armenian: լուսարար (hy) (lusarar)
• Catalan: sagristà (ca) m
• Cebuano: sakristan
• Dutch: sacrista m, koster (nl) m
• Finnish: suntio (fi)
• French: sacristain (fr) m, sacristaine (fr) f
• German: Küster (de) m, Küsterin (de) f, Mesner (de) m
• Greek: σκευοφύλακας (el) m (skevofýlakas), σκευοφύλαξ (el) m (skevofýlax)
• Hungarian: sekrestyés (hu)
• Indonesian: koster, sakristan
• Italian: sacrestano (it) m, sagrestano (it) m
• Ladin: mëune m,
• Latin: sēcrētārius m (Mediaeval), sacrarius, aedituus
• Malayalam: കപ്യാർ (ml) (kapyāṟ)
• Polish: zakrystian (pl) m, zakrystianka (pl) f, kościelny (pl) m, kościelna (pl) f
• Romanian: sacristan (ro) m
• Russian: ри́зничий (ru) m (rízničij), понома́рь (ru) m (ponomárʹ)
• Spanish: sacristán (es) m
• Tagalog: sakristan

Anagrams

• arcanists

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sacristain, Italian sacristano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.krisˈtan/

Noun

sacristan m (plural sacristani)

1. sacristan

   Synonyms: (dated) sacristin; (in the Eastern Orthodox Church) paracliser

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sacristan	sacristanul		sacristani	sacristanii
genitive-dative	sacristan	sacristanului		sacristani	sacristanilor
vocative	sacristanule			sacristanilor

Related terms

• sacristie

See also

• sacru

References

• sacristan in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)