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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion).
Pronunciation
Noun
baptistērium n (genitive baptistēriī or baptistērī); second declension
- A place for bathing.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) A baptistery or baptistry; a baptismal font.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “baptisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- baptisterium 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)
- baptisterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “baptisterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “baptisterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin