baptistery

baptistery
(亦作 baptistry )
(pl. -ies)
  1. the part of a church used for baptism
    (教堂中)洗礼堂(室)
    ■(historical)a building next to a church, used for baptism
    (史)(教堂旁)洗礼堂
    ■(in a Baptist chapel) a sunken receptacle used for baptism by total immersion
    (浸礼会礼拜堂)浸礼池
语源
  1. Middle English : from Old French baptistere, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek baptistērion, from baptizein 'immerse, baptize'
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