sacerdot

Borrowed from Latin sacerdōtem (“priest, priestess”), from sacer (“holy, sacred”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sə.sərˈdɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [sa.seɾˈðɔt]

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

sacerdot m (plural sacerdots)

1. priest

   Synonym: capellà

• prevere

• saçerdot, sacerdoth (alternative spellings)

• IPA^(key): /sat͡seɾˈdot/

sacerdot m (plural sacerdotes)

1. Apocopic form of sacerdote; priest
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 58r:

     e entraron en ſa caſa de la ydola bual e destruyeron todo lo que fallaron e mataron al ſacerdot dela ydola

     And they entered the house of the idol Baal and destroyed all they found. And they killed the idol's priest.

   • Idem, f. 80r.

     EN cabo dela uilla de iſrꝉ apart de oriẽt es tenplum domini caſa del c̃aador. alli era zacharias ſacerdoth. eueno a el el angel enuncio la nauidat de ſo fijo ſant juan baptiſta

     In the city of Israel, in the eastern part, is the Temple of the Lord, house of the Creator. There Zachariah was priest, and the angel came to him and announced the birth of his son Saint John the Baptist.

Borrowed from Italian sacerdote.

sacerdot m (plural sacerdoți)

1. priest