sagramentu
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- sacramentu
Etymology
From Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum. Compare Italian sacramento. By surface analysis, sagrari (“consacrate”) + -mentu.
Noun
sagramentu m needs inflection
- sacrament
- Pani e sagramentu cci nn'è a ogni cunventu.
- There's bread and sacrament in each convent.
Derived terms
- sagramentali
Descendants
- → Maltese: sagrament
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “sagramentu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 3540–3541
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “sagramentu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 316