sacerdotium

== Latin == === Etymology === From sacerdōs (“priest”) + -ium (noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sa.kɛrˈdoː.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sa.t͡ʃerˈdɔt.t͡si.um] === Noun === sacerdōtium n (genitive sacerdōtiī or sacerdōtī); second declension An office of priests, priesthood. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sacerdotium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "sacerdotium", 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) “sacerdotium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. sacerdotium, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011