sacer
Latin
adj
Definitions
- sacred, holy, dedicated (to a divinity), consecrated, hallowed (translating Greek ἱερός)
- devoted (to a divinity for sacrifice), fated (to destruction), forfeited, accursed
- divine, celestial
- (only poetic and in post-Augustan prose) execrable, detestable, horrible, infamous; criminal, impious, wicked, abominable, cursed
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *sākris (sacred) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (make a treaty, sanctify).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₂k-
Gloss
make a treaty, sanctify
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sacellum English
- sacrilegious English
- sacrilegiously English
- sacrilegiousness English
- Sancus Latin
- exsecrabilis Latin
- exsecror Latin
- sacellum Latin
- sacrarium Latin
- sacrarius Latin
- sacrifer Latin
- sacrifico Latin
- sacrilege Latin
- sacrilegium Latin
- sacrilegus Latin
- sacrista Latin
- sacristanus Latin
- sacristānus Latin
- sacrum Latin
- sagmen Latin
- samentum Latin
- sancio Latin
- esecrare Italian
- sacello Italian
- sacrario Italian
- sacrilego Italian
- sacrista Italian
- exécrer French
- sacrilège French
- sacrílego Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European
- *sh₂krós Proto-Indo-European
- sacrílego Portuguese
- segrestien Old French
- sacríleg Catalan, Valencian
- sacrílego Galician
- սարկավագ Armenian
- սարկաւագ Old Armenian
- *sākris Proto-Italic