# sacrarium
## English
### Etymology

From Latin sacrārium.

### Noun

sacrarium (plural sacrariums or sacraria)
* (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)
* The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.
** 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 2, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎:The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.
** 2016, Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, Part I, “Wanted Man,”
    The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.
* (anatomy) The complex sacrum of any bird.

#### Translations
### References

* OED 2nd edition 1989

## Latin
### Etymology

From sacer (“sacred, holy”) +‎ -ārium.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /saˈkraː.ri.um/, [s̠äˈkräːriʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /saˈkra.ri.um/, [säˈkräːrium]

### Noun

sacrārium n (genitive sacrāriī or sacrārī); second declension
* A place where sacred objects are kept; sacrarium, sacristy, sanctuary, shrine.
* A secret place (for private documents and/or valuable property)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Related terms

* sacer
* sacerdōs
* sacerdōtālis
* sacerdōtium
* sacerdōtula
* sacrāmentālis
* sacrāmentum
* sacrārius
* sacrātē
* sacrātiō
* sacrātor
* sacricola
* sacrifer
* sacrificālis
* sacrificātiō
* sacrificātor
* sacrificātus
* sacrificiolus
* sacrificium
* sacrificō
* sacrificulus
* sacrificus
* sacrilegē
* sacrilegium
* sacrilegus
* sacrō
* sacrōsanctus
* sacrum

#### Descendants

* Catalan: sagrera, → sagrari, → sacràrium (learned)
* → English: sacrarium
* Friulian: sacrari
* → Italian: sacrario
* → Portuguese: sacrário
* Sicilian: sacrariu
* → Romanian: sacrariu
* → Spanish: sagrario (semi-learned)

### References

* “sacrarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sacrarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sacrarium 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)
* “sacrarium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sacrarium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “sacrarium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* “sacrarium”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011