different between sacristan vs sexton

English

Etymology

From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. See sacred, and compare sexton.

Noun

sacristan (plural sacristans)

1. The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
   • 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

     And hence the custom and law began

     That still at dawn the sacristan,

     Who duly pulls the heavy bell,

     Five and forty beads must tell

     Between each stroke

Related terms

• sacrist
• sacristry
• sacristy

Translations

Anagrams

• arcanists

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sacristain, Italian sacristano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kris?tan/

Noun

sacristan m (plural sacristani)

1. sacristan

Declension

Synonyms

• sacristin (dated)
• paracliser (in the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Related terms

• sacristie

See also

• sacru

References

• sacristan in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?k.st?n/
• Hyphenation: sex?ton

Noun

sexton (plural sextons)

1. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
2. A sexton beetle.

Synonyms

• sacristan

Translations

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sæxtan, siæxt?n, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ks?t?n/

Numeral

sexton

1. sixteen

Related terms

• sextonde
• sextondel