sacrilege

sacrilege

See also: sacrilège

English

Alternative forms

• sacriledge (obsolete)

Etymology

Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From Middle English sacrilege, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy”)) + legō (“gather; take, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- and *leǵ-. Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.[1]

Unrelated to religion, which is ultimately from ligō (“I tie, bind, or bandage”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

sacrilege (usually uncountable, plural sacrileges)

1. Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

Derived terms

• sacrilegious

Translations

desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something sacred

Arabic: تَدْنِيس‎ m (tadnīs), تَرْجِيس‎ m (tarjīs) Armenian: սրբապղծություն (hy) (srbapłcutʿyun) Asturian: sacrilexu m Belarusian: святата́цтва n (svjatatáctva), блюзне́рства n (bljuznjérstva), блюзьне́рства n (bljuzʹnjérstva) (Taraškievica) Bulgarian: кощу́нство (bg) n (koštúnstvo), светота́тство (bg) n (svetotátstvo) Catalan: sacrilegi m Chinese: Mandarin: 冒瀆／冒渎 (zh) (màodú) Czech: svatokrádež (cs) m Danish: helligbrøde c Dutch: heiligschennis (nl) Esperanto: sakrilegio Estonian: pühaduseteotus Finnish: pyhäinhäväistys French: sacrilège (fr) m Galician: sacrilexio m German: Sakrileg (de) n Greek: ιεροσυλία (el) f (ierosylía) Ancient: ἱεροσυλία f (hierosulía) Hungarian: szentségtörés (hu) Ido: sakrilejo (io) Indonesian: sakrilegi (id) Italian: sacrilegio (it) m Japanese: 冒涜 (ja) (ぼうとく, bōtoku) Korean: 모독 (ko) (modok) Latin: sacrilegium n Macedonian: сквернавење (skvernavenje) Norwegian: Bokmål: helligbrød n Occitan: sacrilègi (oc) m Polish: blasfemia (pl) f, bluźnierstwo (pl) n, profanacja (pl) f, świętokradztwo (pl) n Portuguese: sacrilégio (pt) m Romanian: sacrilegiu (ro) n Russian: кощу́нство (ru) n (koščúnstvo), святота́тство (ru) n (svjatotátstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: светогрђе n Roman: svetogrđe (sh) n Slovak: svätokrádež m Slovene: svetoskrunstvo n, bogokletstvo (sl) n Spanish: sacrilegio (es) m Swedish: helgerån (sv) n, skändlighet (sv) c, hädelse (sv) c Ukrainian: святота́тство n (svjatotátstvo), блюзнірство (uk) n (bljuznirstvo)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “sacrilege”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Gilcrease

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Latin

Etymology

From sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

sacrilegē (not comparable)

1. sacrilegiously, impiously

Synonyms

• (impiously): irreligiōsē, nefāriē

Related terms

Related terms

• sacer
• sacerdōs
• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtium
• sacerdōtula
• sacrāmentālis
• sacrāmentum
• sacrārium
• sacrārius
• sacrātē
• sacrātiō
• sacrātor
• sacricola
• sacrifer
• sacrificālis
• sacrificātiō
• sacrificātor
• sacrificātus
• sacrificiolus
• sacrificium
• sacrificō
• sacrificulus
• sacrificus
• sacrilegium
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsanctus
• sacrum

References

• “sacrilege”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacrilege”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

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Old French

Etymology

First attested at the end of the 12th century, borrowed from Latin sacrilegium[1].

Noun

sacrilege m (oblique plural sacrileges, nominative singular sacrileges, nominative plural sacrilege)

1. sacrilege

Descendants

• English: sacrilege
• French: sacrilège

References

1. Etymology and history of “sacrilège”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Adjective

sacrilege m or f or n (masculine plural sacrilegi, feminine and neuter plural sacrilege)

1. Obsolete form of sacrileg.

Declension

Declension of sacrilege

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	sacrilege		sacrilege	sacrilegi	sacrilege
	definite	sacrilegele		sacrilegea	sacrilegii	sacrilegele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	sacrilege		sacrilege	sacrilegi	sacrilege
	definite	sacrilegelui		sacrilegei	sacrilegilor	sacrilegelor

References

• sacrilege in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN