different between penates vs sacrarium

English

Etymology

From Latin Pen?t?s, from penus (“inner part of house”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??n??ti?z/, /p??ne?ti?z/

Noun

penates pl (plural only)

1. (Roman mythology) The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their Penates and Patronal Gods might be called forth by charms and incantations.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of household deities in other contexts.

Derived terms

• lares and penates

Anagrams

• nepetas, pesante, septane

Latin

Noun

pen?t?s

1. nominative plural of pen?s
2. accusative plural of pen?s
3. vocative plural of pen?s

References

• penates in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• penates in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• penates in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Latin sacr?rium.

Noun

sacrarium (plural sacraria)

1. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)
2. 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, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 2,^[1]

     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.

3. (anatomy) The complex sacrum of any bird.

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa?kra?.ri.um/, [s?ä?k?ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa?kra.ri.um/, [s??k????ium]

Noun

sacr?rium n (genitive sacr?ri? or sacr?r?); second declension

1. A place where sacred objects are kept; sacrarium, sacristy, sanctuary, shrine.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: sagrari
• English: sacrarium
• Italian: sacrario
• Portuguese: sacrário
• Spanish: sagrario

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, 1883–1887)
• sacrarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacrarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], 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