English-Italian translations for baptism

• battesimo
  Il mio battesimo a questo proposito sarà domani sera - mi auguro che non sia un battesimo del fuoco. My baptism - and I hope it will not be a baptism of fire - will take place tomorrow evening.
  Si può affermare a ragione che l'euro, ancor prima della sua introduzione ufficiale, ha superato il battesimo del fuoco. We can rightly say that, even before its official introduction, the euro has already gone through its baptism of fire.
  Vorrei anche porgere il benvenuto al nuovo Commissario designato per la fiscalità Kovács, che, come me, oggi ha il suo battesimo del fuoco. I also wish to greet Mr Kovács, the new Commissioner-designate for taxation, who is similarly having his baptism of fire today.

Definition of baptism

• A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water

Related words

• baptismal
• pedobaptism
• paedobaptism
• rebaptism
• debaptism
• Anabaptism
• credobaptism
• baptism of fire
• baptism by fire