sacristia

From sacrista (“sacristan, vestryman”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈkris.ti.a/, [s̠äˈkrɪs̠t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈkris.ti.a/, [säˈkrist̪iä]

sacristia f (genitive sacristiae); first declension

1. vestry

First-declension noun.

• sacer
• sacrista

• sacristia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Ecclesiastical Latin sacristia, from sacer (“sacred, holy”).

• Hyphenation: sa‧cris‧ti‧a

sacristia f (plural sacristias)

1. sacristy