Latin

Noun

baptistērium n ‎(genitive baptistēriī); second declension

1. A place for bathing.
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) A baptistery; a baptismal font.

Inflection

Second declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: baptistry
• Norman: bâptistéthe
• Spanish: baptisterio

References

• baptisterium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BAPTISTERIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “baptisterium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• baptisterium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• baptisterium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin