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caerimonia

Pronunciation: [kae̯.rɪˈmoː.ni.a]

“caerimonia” is a Latin word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. religious ceremony, ritual
  2. sacredness, sanctity
  3. reverence, veneration, awe

Etymology

Uncertain. * The word formally matches Sanskrit कर्मन् (kárman, “action, deed; karma”), as if both were from Proto-Indo-European *kʷermon-, itself an abstract noun formed from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make”). * According to De Vaan, it's a derivation from the unattested adjective *caerus + -mōnia also found as the second part of the compound sincērus (“whole, sound”); however, if so,…

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