The corpus record — Latin

sacerdotium

sacerdotium · n

the priesthood

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De idolatria 6 · 8.69/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 9 · 4.2/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 2 · 3.64/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 5 · 3.3/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 5 · 3.3/10k
De Spectaculis 2 · 3.14/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k

Densest 12 of 71 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

săcerdōtĭum — Lewis & Short

săcerdōtĭum, ii, n.1. sacerdos,

I the priesthood, the office or dignity of priests, the sacerdotal office (good prose; used equally in sing. and plur.)

(a) Sing.: amplissimum sacerdotium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127: amplissimi sacerdotii collegium, id. Fam. 3, 10, 9: propter amplitudinem sacerdotii, id. Agr. 2, 7, 18: homo in sacerdotio diligentissimus, id. Rab. Perd. 10, 27: eodem sacerdotio praeditus, id. Sen. 17, 61: familiare, Liv. 9, 29: priscum et religiosum, Plin. Ep. 4, 8, 1.—

(b) Plur.: hoc idem de ceteris sacerdotiis Cn. Domitius tulit: quod populus per religionem sacerdotia mandare non poterat, Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 18: lex de sacerdotiis, id. Lael. 25, 96: de sacerdotiis contendere, Caes. B. C. 3, 82.—

B In eccl. Lat., of the mediatorial office of Christ, Vulg. Heb. 7, 12; 7, 24.

In the wild

sacerdotii Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.27.p2
sacerdotia Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.18
sacerdotia Tacitus, Historiae 1.2
sacerdotiis Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 96.p2
sacerdotiis Suetonius, Vitellius 5.1
sacerdotium Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.3.5

6 of 190 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.