sacrilegious
English
/sæk.ɹəˈlɪdʒ.əs/, /sæk.ɹəˈlɪdʒ.əs/
adj
Definitions
- Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
Etymology
Derived from Latin sacer (sacred, holy, dedicated).
Origin
Latin
sacer
Gloss
sacred, holy, dedicated
Concept
Semantic Field
Religion and belief
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
聖
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sacrilegiously English
- sacrilegiousness English
- exsecror Latin
- sacellum Latin
- sacer Latin
- sacrarium Latin
- sacrarius Latin
- sacrifer Latin
- sacrifico Latin
- sacrilege Latin
- sacrilegium Latin
- sacrilegus Latin
- sacrista Latin
- sacristanus Latin
- sacrilego Italian
- sacrilège French
- sacrílego Spanish, Castilian
- sacrílego Portuguese
- sacríleg Catalan, Valencian
- sacrílego Galician
- *sākris Proto-Italic