different between easter vs baptism

English

Etymology

Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?.st?/

Adjective

easter (comparative more easter, superlative most easter)

1. (now regional) Eastern. [from 8th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:

     In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond.

Derived terms

• easterly
• Easter Ross

Related terms

• wester

References

• “easter” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares, teaser

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