sacrificium
Latin
editEtymology
editDeverbal[1] noun from sacrum (“religious act, rite, sacrifice”) + faciō (“do, make”) + -ium (noun-forming suffix). Related to sacrificō (“to sacrifice”) and sacrificus (“sacrificial”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sa.kriˈfi.ki.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.kriˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [säkriˈfiːt͡ʃium]
Noun
editsacrificium n (genitive sacrificiī or sacrificī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sacrificium | sacrificia |
Genitive | sacrificiī sacrificī1 |
sacrificiōrum |
Dative | sacrificiō | sacrificiīs |
Accusative | sacrificium | sacrificia |
Ablative | sacrificiō | sacrificiīs |
Vocative | sacrificium | sacrificia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
edit- (sacrifice): hostia
Related terms
editRelated terms
- sacer
- sacerdōs
- sacerdōtālis
- sacerdōtium
- sacerdōtula
- sacrāmentālis
- sacrāmentum
- sacrārium
- sacrārius
- sacrātē
- sacrātiō
- sacrātor
- sacricola
- sacrifer
- sacrificālis
- sacrificātiō
- sacrificātor
- sacrificātus
- sacrificiolus
- sacrificō
- sacrificulus
- sacrificus
- sacrilegē
- sacrilegium
- sacrilegus
- sacrō
- sacrōsānctus
- sacrum
Descendants
edit- → Catalan: sacrifici
- → Old French: sacrifice
- → Italian: sacrificio
- → Piedmontese: sacrifissi
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: sacrifiçio
- Galician: sacrificio
- Portuguese: sacrifício
- → Romanian: sacrificiu
- → Old Spanish: sacrificio
- Spanish: sacrificio
References
edit- “sacrificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacrificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacrificium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sacrificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sacrifice: sacra, sacrificium facere (ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), sacrificare
- a periodically recurring (annual) sacrifice: sacrificium statum (solemne) (Tusc. 1. 47. 113)
- to sacrifice: sacra, sacrificium facere (ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), sacrificare
- “sacrificium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sacrificium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *seh₂k-
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin compound terms
- Latin terms suffixed with -ium
- Latin 5-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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