sacramentum
noun
sacramentum is a noun meaning “An Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-C-R-A-M-E-N-T-U-M, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sacramentum is sacramenta.
What does sacramentum mean?
noun
- 1
An Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sacramentum
- sacramenta plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sacramentum?
Sacramentum appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does sacramentum come from?
Borrowed from Latin sacrāmentum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).