sacrilegus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- That steals sacred things or robs a temple; sacrilegious.
- That violates or profanes sacred things; impious, godless, profane, sacrilegious.
Etymology
Suffix 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
- sacrilegious English
- sacrilegiously English
- sacrilegiousness English
- exsecror Latin
- sacellum Latin
- sacer Latin
- sacrarium Latin
- sacrarius Latin
- sacrifer Latin
- sacrifico Latin
- sacrilege Latin
- sacrilegium Latin
- sacrista Latin
- sacristanus Latin
- sacrilegamente Italian
- sacrilegio Italian
- sacrilego Italian
- sacrilège French
- sacrilégement French
- sacrilegio Spanish, Castilian
- sacrílegamente Spanish, Castilian
- sacrílego Spanish, Castilian
- *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European
- sacrilegamente Portuguese
- sacrilégio Portuguese
- sacrílego Portuguese
- sacrilege Old French
- sacrilegi Catalan, Valencian
- sacríleg Catalan, Valencian
- sacrílegament Catalan, Valencian
- sacrilexio Galician
- sacrílego Galician
- sacrilègi Occitan
- *sākris Proto-Italic
- sacrilexu Asturian