sexton

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkstən/

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• Hyphenation: sex‧ton

sexton (plural sextons)

1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
2. A sexton beetle.

• sacristan

From Old Swedish sæxtan, siæxtān, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌtɔn/

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sexton

1. sixteen

• sextonde
• sextondel