Latin

Noun

sacrāmentum n ‎(genitive sacrāmentī); second declension

1. A sum of money deposited in pledge by two individuals involved in a suit. The money of the loser in the suit was applied to religious purposes.
2. (military) An oath of allegiance.
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Sacrament.
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A mystery, secret.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• sacrāmentālis

Related terms

Descendants

References

• sacramentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sacramentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SACRAMENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sacramentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take the military oath: sacramentum (o) dicere (vid. sect. XI. 2, note sacramentum...)
    
  • to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
    
• sacramentum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacramentum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin