sacrarium
English
Noun
sacrarium (plural sacraria)
- (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)
- The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 2,
- The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.
- 2016, Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, Part I, “Wanted Man,”
- The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 2,
- (anatomy) The complex sacrum of any bird.
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈkraː.ri.um/, [saˈkraː.ri.ũ]
Noun
sacrārium n (genitive sacrāriī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sacrārium | sacrāria |
Genitive | sacrāriī | sacrāriōrum |
Dative | sacrāriō | sacrāriīs |
Accusative | sacrārium | sacrāria |
Ablative | sacrāriō | sacrāriīs |
Vocative | sacrārium | sacrāria |
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Descendants
References
- sacrarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sacrarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacrarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- sacrarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacrarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- sacrarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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