baptisterium

See also: Baptisterium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βαπτιστήριον (baptistḗrion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bap.tisˈteː.ri.um/, [bäpt̪ɪs̠ˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bap.tisˈte.ri.um/, [bäpt̪isˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

baptistērium n (genitive baptistēriī or baptistērī); second declension

1. A place for bathing.
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A baptistery or baptistry; a baptismal font.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	baptistērium	baptistēria
genitive	baptistēriī baptistērī1	baptistēriōrum
dative	baptistēriō	baptistēriīs
accusative	baptistērium	baptistēria
ablative	baptistēriō	baptistēriīs
vocative	baptistērium	baptistēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• baptisma
• baptismum
• baptismus
• baptista
• baptīzātiō
• baptīzātor
• baptīzātrīx
• baptīzō

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: baptisteri
• → Danish: baptisterium
• → Dutch: baptisterium
• → English: baptistery, baptistry
• → Esperanto: baptisterio
• → French: baptistère
• → German: Baptisterium
• → Italian: battistero
• → Norman: bâptistéthe
• → Norwegian Bokmål: baptisterium
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: baptisterium
• → Portuguese: batistério
• → Romanian: baptisteriu
• → Spanish: baptisterio
• → Swedish: baptisterium

References

• “baptisterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• baptisterium 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)
• baptisterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “baptisterium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “baptisterium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin