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) IPA(key): /sa.kriˈfi.ki.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (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
Related 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
- → Catalan: sacrifici
- → Old French: sacrifice
- Middle French: sacrifice
- French: sacrifice
- → Middle English: sacrifice, sacrifise
- English: sacrifice
- Middle French: sacrifice
- → Italian: sacrificio
- → Piedmontese: sacrifissi
- → Old 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, 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
- 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