sacramentum

From sacrō (“consecrate, dedicate, devote”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) +‎ -mentum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.kraːˈmen.tum/, [sa.kraːˈmɛn.tũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kraˈmen.tum/

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.

Second declension.

• sacrāmentālis

• 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)
• sacramentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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