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Latin
Etymology
From sacerdōs (“priest”) + -ium (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
sacerdōtium n (genitive sacerdōtiī or sacerdōtī); second declension
- An office of priests, priesthood.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
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 Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011