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sacrarius

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [saˈkraː.ri.ʊs][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [saˈkraː.ri.us][1]

Forms

sacrārius m (genitive sacrāriī or sacrārī); second declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin sacer (“sacred, holy”) + -ārius.[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is known from inscriptions, as of a sacristan of Juno.[4][5][3]

Semantic evolution

It was the keeper of a shrine, a sacristan.[2][4]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a sacristan.[6]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The keeper of a shrine, sacristan.[2][4][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson