sexton

See also: Sexton

English

WOTD – 4 June 2012, 4 June 2013, 4 June 2014, 4 June 2015

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.stən/

• Audio (Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkstən
• 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.

   Synonym: sacristan

   Coordinate terms: verger, caretaker

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 312:

     The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.

   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 61.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell

   • 1927, Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway, An Alpine Idyll:

     We stopped in the road and watched the sexton shovelling in the new earth. A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave. The sexton stopped shovelling and straightened his back. The peasant in the high boots took the spade from the sexton and went on filling in the grave

2. A sexton beetle.

Derived terms

• Sexton
• sextoncy
• sextoness
• sextonry
• sextonship
• Sleeping Sexton
• undersexton

Related terms

• sacrament
• sacredness
• sacristanry
• sacristry
• sacristy

Translations

church official

• Armenian: եկեղեցու պահակ (ekeġecʻu pahak), ժամկոչ (hy) (žamkočʻ) (bell ringer), գերեզմանափոր (hy) (gerezmanapʻor) (gravedigger)
• Belarusian: царко́ўны вартаўні́к m (carkówny vartawník)
• Bulgarian: клиса́р (bg) m (klisár)
• Catalan: sagristà (ca) m
• Czech: kostelník (cs) m
• Dutch: koster (nl) m
• Finnish: suntio (fi)
• French: sacristain (fr) m, sacriste (fr) m
• Gallo: bedaou m
• German: Küster (de) m, Küsterin (de) f, Sigrist m (Switzerland), Sigristin f, Kirchendiener (de) m, Kirchendienerin f
• Greek: νεωκόρος (el) m (neokóros), εκκλησάρης (el) m (ekklisáris)
• Hungarian: sekrestyés (hu)
• Ingrian: ponomari
• Irish: cléireach m
• Italian: sagrestano (it) m, sacrestano (it) m
• Latin: sēcrētārius m (Mediaeval)
• Macedonian: кли́сар m (klísar), при́служник m (príslužnik)
• Malayalam: കപ്യാർ (ml) (kapyāṟ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klokker (no) m, sakristan m

  Nynorsk: klokkar m

• Polish: zakrystian (pl) m
• Portuguese: sacristão (pt) m
• Romanian: paracliser (ro) m, sacristan (ro) m, pălămar (ro) m (regional)
• Russian: понома́рь (ru) m (ponomárʹ), церко́вный сто́рож m (cerkóvnyj stórož), ри́зничий (ru) (rízničij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: crkvenjak (sh) m, sakristan (sh) m

• Slovak: kostolník m
• Slovene: cerkovnik m, mežnar m
• Spanish: sacristán (es) m
• Swedish: kyrkvaktmästare c
• Triqui:

  Copala Triqui: ró nuvií

• Turkish: zangoç (tr)
• Welsh: clochydd m (bellringer), torrwr beddau m (gravedigger)

See also

• churchwarden

Swedish

Swedish numbers ^(edit)

←  15	16	17  →
Cardinal: sexton     Ordinal: sextonde     Ordinal abbreviation: 16:e     Multiplier: sextonfaldig     Fractional: sextondel

Etymology

From Old Swedish sæxtan, siæxtān, from Old Norse sextán, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksˌtɔn/

• Audio:

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Numeral

sexton

1. sixteen

Coordinate terms

Swedish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99

	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9
0—	noll	ett, en	två	tre	fyra	fem	sex	sju	åtta	nio
10—	tio	elva	tolv	tretton	fjorton	femton	sexton	sjutton	arton	nitton
20—	tjugo	tjugoett, tjugoen	tjugotvå	tjugotre	tjugofyra	tjugofem	tjugosex	tjugosju	tjugoåtta	tjugonio
30—	trettio	trettioett, trettioen	trettiotvå	trettiotre	trettiofyra	trettiofem	trettiosex	trettiosju	trettioåtta	trettionio
40—	fyrtio	fyrtioett, fyrtioen	fyrtiotvå	fyrtiotre	fyrtiofyra	fyrtiofem	fyrtiosex	fyrtiosju	fyrtioåtta	fyrtionio
50—	femtio	femtioett, femtioen	femtiotvå	femtiotre	femtiofyra	femtiofem	femtiosex	femtiosju	femtioåtta	femtionio
60—	sextio	sextioett, sextioen	sextiotvå	sextiotre	sextiofyra	sextiofem	sextiosex	sextiosju	sextioåtta	sextionio
70—	sjuttio	sjuttioett, sjuttioen	sjuttiotvå	sjuttiotre	sjuttiofyra	sjuttiofem	sjuttiosex	sjuttiosju	sjuttioåtta	sjuttionio
80—	åttio	åttioett, åttioen	åttiotvå	åttiotre	åttiofyra	åttiofem	åttiosex	åttiosju	åttioåtta	åttionio
90—	nittio	nittioett, nittioen	nittiotvå	nittiotre	nittiofyra	nittiofem	nittiosex	nittiosju	nittioåtta	nittionio

Swedish cardinal numbers from 100 onward

• 100: hundra
• 10³: tusen
• 10⁴: tiotusen (myriad)
• 10⁶: miljon
• 10⁹: miljard
• 10¹²: biljon
• 10¹⁵: biljard
• 10¹⁸: triljon
• 10²¹: triljard
• 10²⁴: kvadriljon
• 10²⁷: kvadriljard
• 10³⁰: kvintiljon
• 10³³: kvintiljard
• 10³⁶: sextiljon
• 10³⁹: sextiljard
• 10⁴²: septiljon
• 10⁴⁵: septiljard
• 10⁴⁸: oktiljon
• 10⁵¹: oktiljard
• 10⁵⁴: noniljon
• 10⁵⁷: noniljard
• 10⁶⁰: deciljon
• 10⁶³: deciljard
• 10⁶⁶: undeciljon
• 10⁶⁹: undeciljard
• 10⁷²: duodeciljon
• 10⁷⁵: duodeciljard
• 10⁷⁸: tredeciljon
• 10⁸¹: tredeciljard
• 10⁸⁴: quattuordeciljon
• 10⁸⁷: quattuordeciljard
• …
• 10¹⁰⁰: googol
• …
• 10¹²⁰: vigintiljon
• 10¹²³: vigintiljard
• …

Related terms

• sextonde
• sextondel

References

• “sexton”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sexton”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sexton”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)