caerimonia

• caerimōnium

It 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, however, it's a derivation from the unattested adjective *caerus- +‎ -mōnia also found as the second part of the compound sincērus (“whole, sound”).

Romans folk-etymologized this word as if coming from the name of the city of Caere.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kae̯.riˈmoː.ni.a/, [kae̯.rɪˈmoː.ni.a]

caerimōnia f (genitive caerimōniae); first declension

1. religious ceremony, ritual
2. sacredness, sanctity
3. reverence, veneration, awe

First declension.

• caerimōniālis
• caerimōnior
• caerimōniōsus

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caerimonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to invoke an irrevocable curse on the profanation of sacred rites: violatas caerimonias inexpiabili religione sancire (Tusc. 1. 12. 27)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 81