A septon is a priest of a faith in the novels. The village septon, ask the septon, a septon in grey.
The name is built on seven, since the faith it belongs to worships one god with seven aspects. A female one is a septa, and the building is a sept, which is a neat piece of invented vocabulary.
1nounseptonA priest of a faith in the novels.
“The septon said prayers over the dead king in the great hall of the temple.”
septon is a priest.
Back formation from septic acid (nitric acid), so named because nitrogen appeared to be the cause of putrefaction.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire