sexton

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English

WOTD – 4 June 2012

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Sexton (office)

sexton (plural sextons)

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
A sexton beetle.

church official

Armenian: եկեղեցու պահակ (ekeġecʻu pahak), ժամկոչ (hy) (žamkočʻ) (bell ringer), գերեզմանափոր (hy) (gerezmanapʻor) (gravedigger)
Belarusian: царко́ўны вартаўні́к m (carkóŭny vartaŭník)
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)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: crkvenjak (sh) m, sakristan (sh) m
Slovak: kostolník m
Slovene: cerkovnik m, mežnar m
Spanish: sacristán (es) m
Swedish: kyrkvaktmästare c
Turkish: zangoç (tr)
Welsh: clochydd m (bellringer), torrwr beddau m (gravedigger)

**Swedish cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : sexton Ordinal : sextonde Fractional : sextondel

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Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99

Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

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