SACERDOS, sacerdos
Sounds Like: sah-KER-dohs
Translations: priest, a priest, priestess, a priestess, minister of religion
From the root: SACERDOS
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: Sacerdos refers to a priest or priestess, an official who performs religious rites and sacrifices. In ancient Roman religion, a sacerdos was a person consecrated to the service of a deity and responsible for maintaining the proper relationship between humans and the gods. The term is epicene, meaning it can refer to both male and female religious officials.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Vocative, Common Gender (Masculine or Feminine)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, SACERDOS.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- SACERDOTALIBUS — (to) priestly, (to) sacerdotal, (by/with/from) priestly, (by/with/from) sacerdotal
- SACERDOTES — priests, the priests
- SACERDOTIBUS — (to) priests, (for) priests, (by) priests, (with) priests, (from) priests
- SACERDOTUM — of priests, of the priests
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