Other forms: sacraments
A sacrament is one of the formal rites regarded as carrying grace. Receive the sacrament, the last sacrament, a sacrament of the church.
The Catholic and Orthodox churches count seven, including baptism, communion and marriage; most Protestant churches count two, baptism and communion, on the grounds that only those were instituted directly. The Latin behind it means a sacred oath.
1nounsacramentOne of the formal rites regarded as carrying grace.
“In the Catholic Church, marriage is considered a sacrament.”
sacrament is a rite.
Latin sacramentum meant a solemn oath, from sacrare, to make sacred, from sacer, holy.
Latin
sacrō — hallow, consecrate
Ecclesiastical Latin
sacrāmentum — sacrament
Old French
sacrement
Middle English
sacrament
English, today
sacrament
Built from
From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA