The corpus record — Latin

baptisma

baptisma · n

A dipping in

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
De Pudicitia 8 · 5.95/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 9 · 3.97/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 14 · 1.99/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
Adversus Marcionem 7 · 0.85/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

baptisma — Lewis & Short

baptisma, ătis, n., = ba/ptisma.

I A dipping in, dipping under, washing, ablution, Prud. Psych. 103; Apoth. 697; Vulg. Marc. 7, 4; 7, 8: mundi, i. e. the general deluge, Tert. Bapt. 8.—

II Esp., Christian baptism, Vulg. Eph. 4, 5; in the Church fathers very freq.—A parallel form baptismus, i, m., Cod. Th. 16, 6, 1; Vulg. Marc. 11, 30 al.—baptismum, i, n., Tert. Bapt. 15; Aug. Serm. Temp. 36; Vulg. Matt. 21, 25 al.

In the wild

baptisma Tertullian, De Anima 50
baptismatis Tertullian, De Pudicitia 9
baptisma Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.38
baptismate Tertullian, De Scorpiace 12
baptisma Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 47
baptisma Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.14.p1

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.