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A sacristan is the person who looks after the holy things in a church: the special cups and plates used in the service, the cloths, the candles, and the clothes the priest puts on. They work from a small side room called the , set those things out before a service, and put them away after. In some churches this is paid work; in others a volunteer does it. People often mix the word with sexton. Though actually the two names come from the same old Latin root, they drifted apart: a sexton more often looks after the building and the graveyard, while a sacristan looks after the holy objects. In a small church, one person may still do both jobs. You will meet this word in writing about churches, not in everyday street talk, and a sacristan is not a priest — they help; they do not lead the service.
聖器室管理員
組成From French sacristain, from Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer, “holy.” It is a doublet of sexton: the same Latin word reached English by two different roads.
同家族的字
- sacredsame Latin sacer, “holy”
- sacristythe church room this person looks after, same root
- sacrificesame Latin sacer
- sacrosanctsame Latin sacer
- sextondoublet: same Latin source by another path
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sacristannoun/ˈsækɹɪstən/
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The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
- And hence the custom and law began That still at dawn the sacristan, Who duly pulls the heavy bell, Five and forty beads must tell Between each stroke
- […] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。