baptismal

baptismal

English

Etymology

baptism +‎ -al

Adjective

baptismal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to baptism.
2. Of a name, conferred at baptism.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:

     The neophyte was given a new name in place of the baptismal one, usually of an evil and revolting character, and this was written in blood in the Devil's book, the covers of which were bound in the skin of unbaptised infants.

Translations

relating to baptism

Asturian: bautismal Catalan: baptismal Esperanto: bapta French: baptismal (fr) Galician: bautismal Italian: battesimale Portuguese: batismal (pt) Spanish: bautismal (es)

Noun

baptismal (plural baptismals)

1. A baptismal name: a name given at baptism.
   • 1872, Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 120:

     ...Mr. Andrew Theophilus Smith, or some such unlikely pair of baptismals...

2. A baptismal font: a large basin used for baptism.

   The baptismal is in the front of the sanctuary.

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Catalan

Adjective

baptismal (masculine and feminine plural baptismals)

1. baptismal

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French

Adjective

baptismal (feminine baptismale, masculine plural baptismaux, feminine plural baptismales)

1. baptismal

Derived terms

• fonts baptismaux

Further reading

• “baptismal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: bap‧tis‧mal

Adjective

baptismal m or f (plural baptismais)

1. Superseded spelling of batismal. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)