different between baptistery vs baptism

English

Noun

baptistery (plural baptisteries)

1. Alternative spelling of baptistry

Middle English

Alternative forms

• baptisterie, bapetystore

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin baptist?rium, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (baptist?rion); equivalent to baptist +? -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bapti?st??ri?(?)/, /?bapti?st(?)ri?(?)/

Noun

baptistery

1. (rare) A baptistry (the facility where baptism occurs)
2. (rare) The baptismal font.
3. (rare) The church service held in conjunction with baptism.

Related terms

• bapteme
• baptisen
• baptist
• baptizyng

Descendants

• English: baptistry, baptistery

References

• “baptist??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bapteme, baptesme, from Old French batesme or bapteme, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptisma, from Ancient Greek ???????? (báptisma, “dipping, baptism”), from ??????? (baptíz?, “I dip in liquid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæpt?z?m/

Noun

baptism (countable and uncountable, plural baptisms)

1. A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water.
2. A similar ceremony of initiation, purification or naming.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• affusion
• aspersion
• dunking
• godchild
• goddaughter
• godfather
• godmother
• godparent
• godson
• immersing
• immersion
• pouring
• sprinkling
• submersion

Anagrams

• bit maps, bit-maps, bitmaps

Romanian

Etymology

From French baptisme

Noun

baptism n (uncountable)

1. a Baptist denomination

Declension