sexton

sexton

See also: Sexton

English

WOTD – 4 June 2012

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkstən/

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• Hyphenation: sex‧ton

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• sacristan

Translations

church official

Armenian: եկեղեցու պահակ (ekełecʿu pahak), ժամկոչ (hy) (žamkočʿ) (bell-ringer), գերեզմանափոր (hy) (gerezmanapʿor) (gravedigger) Belarusian: царкоўны вартаўнік m (carkóŭny vartaŭník) Catalan: sagristà (ca) m Dutch: koster (nl) m Finnish: suntio (fi) French: sacristain (fr) m, sacriste (fr) m Gallo: bedaou m German: Küster (de) m, Küsterin f, Sigrist m (Switzerland), Sigristin f Greek: νεωκόρος (el) m (neokóros), εκκλησάρης (el) m (ekklisáris) Hungarian: sekrestyés (hu) Irish: cléireach m Italian: sagrestano (it) m, sacrestano (it) m Latin: sēcrētārius m (Mediaeval)

Norwegian: Bokmål: klokker (no) m, sakristan m Nynorsk: klokkar m Polish: zakrystian (pl) m Portuguese: sacristão (pt) m Romanian: paracliser (ro) m, sacristan (ro) m Russian: (please verify) церко́вный сто́рож m (cerkóvnyj stórož) Slovene: cerkovnik m, mežnar m Spanish: sacristán (es) m Swedish: kyrkvaktmästare c Turkish: zangoç (tr) Welsh: clochydd m (bellringer), torrwr beddau m (gravedigger)

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Swedish

Swedish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sexton     Ordinal : sextonde

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌtɔn/

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Numeral

sexton

1. sixteen

Related terms

• sextonde
• sextondel