sacerdos

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sakrodōts. Equivalent to sacer (“sacred, holy”) plus an affix derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁- (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈker.doːs/, [s̠äˈkɛrd̪oːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈt͡ʃer.dos/, [säˈt͡ʃɛrd̪os]

Noun

sacerdōs m or f (genitive sacerdōtis); third declension

1. priest, priestess, cleric

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sacerdōs	sacerdōtēs
Genitive	sacerdōtis	sacerdōtum
Dative	sacerdōtī	sacerdōtibus
Accusative	sacerdōtem	sacerdōtēs
Ablative	sacerdōte	sacerdōtibus
Vocative	sacerdōs	sacerdōtēs

Derived terms

• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtium
• sacerdōtula

 

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• Asturian: sacerdote
• Catalan: sacerdot
• → Chinese: 司鐸／司铎 (sīduó) (phono-semantic loan)
• Galician: sacerdote
• Italian: sacerdote
  • → Sardinian: satzerdote, sacerdote
• Portuguese: sacerdote
• Old English: sacerd
• Romanian: sacerdot
• Sicilian: sacirduti
• Spanish: sacerdote
• → Old Irish: sacart
  • Irish: sagart
  • Manx: saggyrt
  • Scottish Gaelic: sagart
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: sacartacht

References

• “sacerdos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacerdos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacerdos 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)
• sacerdos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sacerdos”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacerdos in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “sacerdos”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin