sacrificium

Latin

Etymology

Deverbal^[1] noun from sacrum (“religious act, rite, sacrifice”) +‎ faciō (“do, make”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix). Related to sacrificō (“to sacrifice”) and sacrificus (“sacrificial”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈfi.ki.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [säkriˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

sacrificium n (genitive sacrificiī or sacrificī); second declension

Something made sacred or given to a deity, sacrifice.

Declension

Second-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

(sacrifice): hostia

Related terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: sacrifici
→ Old French: sacrifice
- Middle French: sacrifice
  - French: sacrifice
- → Middle English: sacrifice, sacrifise
  - English: sacrifice
→ Italian: sacrificio
→ Piedmontese: sacrifissi
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: sacrifiçio
- Galician: sacrificio
- Portuguese: sacrifício
→ Romanian: sacrificiu
→ Old Spanish: sacrificio
- Spanish: sacrificio

References

“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)
“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

^ Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 3.2.3 Synthetic compounds in -ium, page 75

[1] Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 3.2.3 Synthetic compounds in -ium, page 75

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