The corpus record — Latin

sacerdotalis

sacerdotalis · adj

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

săcerdōtālis — Lewis & Short

săcerdōtālis (collat. form SACERDOTIALIS, e, adj.id.,

Inscr. Orell. 2469),

I of or belonging to priests, priestly, sacerdotal (post-Aug.).

1 Adj.: ludi, given by the priests on entering upon their office, Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 6: nomen, used by priests, Macr. S. 3, 5, 6: sedes, an episcopal see, Amm. 15, 7, 9: lex, Tert. adv. Jud. 5: vir, a man of priestly rank, Vell. 1, 124, 4; Inscr. Orell. 4981.—Hence,

2 In late Lat., subst.: săcerdōtālis, is, m., one who has filled a priestly office, Cod. Th. 12, 5, 2; Tert. Spect. 11; Amm. 28, 6, 10; Inscr. Orell. 1108.

In the wild

sacerdotalia Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.29.p1
sacerdotalia Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 39.p2
sacerdotalium Tertullian, De Corona 10
sacerdotalia Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 41.p1
sacerdotalia Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 12

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.