SACERDOTES, sacerdotes
Sounds Like: sah-kehr-DOH-tays
Translations: priests, the priests
From the root: SACERDOS
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to priests or priestesses, individuals who perform religious rites and sacrifices. It is the plural form of 'sacerdos', and can be used in sentences to refer to multiple religious officials, such as 'The priests entered the temple'.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Masculine or Feminine
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
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.
- SACERDOS — priest, a priest, priestess, a priestess, minister of religion
- SACERDOTALIBUS — (to) priestly, (to) sacerdotal, (by/with/from) priestly, (by/with/from) sacerdotal
- SACERDOTIBUS — (to) priests, (for) priests, (by) priests, (with) priests, (from) priests
- SACERDOTUM — of priests, of the priests
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