caerimonia

== Latin == === Alternative forms === caerimōnium cērimōnia (Late Latin) === Etymology === Uncertain. The word formally matches Sanskrit कर्मन् (kárman, “action, deed; karma”), as if both were from Proto-Indo-European *kʷermon-, itself an abstract noun formed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make”). According to De Vaan, it's a derivation from the unattested adjective *caerus +‎ -mōnia also found as the second part of the compound sincērus (“whole, sound”); however, if so, the expected outcome of the latter would be *sincīrus. Roman folk etymology held this word as coming from the name of the city of Caere. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯.rɪˈmoː.ni.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃe.riˈmɔː.ni.a] === Noun === caerimōnia f (genitive caerimōniae); first declension religious ceremony, ritual sacredness, sanctity reverence, veneration, awe ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== caerimōniālis caerimōnior caerimōniōsus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “caerimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “caerimonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "caerimonia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “caerimonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 81