sacrosanctus
Latin
Alternative forms
- sacrō sānctus
Etymology
From the ablative of sacrum (“holy, sacred object, place or act”) + sānctus (“consecrated, sacred”). Both elements ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“to make a pact; to make sacred”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sa.kroːˈsaːnk.tus/, [s̠äkroːˈs̠äːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.kroˈsank.tus/, [säkroˈs̬äŋkt̪us]
Adjective
sacrōsānctus (feminine sacrōsāncta, neuter sacrōsānctum); first/second-declension adjective
- inaugurated or consecrated with religious ceremonies
- fixed or decreed as inviolable, sacred, sacrosanct
- (by extension) most holy, sacred or venerable
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sacrōsānctus | sacrōsāncta | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsāncta | |
| Genitive | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctōrum | sacrōsānctārum | sacrōsānctōrum | |
| Dative | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctīs | ||||
| Accusative | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctam | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctōs | sacrōsānctās | sacrōsāncta | |
| Ablative | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctā | sacrōsānctō | sacrōsānctīs | |||
| Vocative | sacrōsāncte | sacrōsāncta | sacrōsānctum | sacrōsānctī | sacrōsānctae | sacrōsāncta | |
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
- sacrilegē
- sacrilegium
- sacrilegus
- sacrō
- sacrum
Descendants
- Catalan: sacrosant
- English: sacrosanct
- French: sacro-saint
- Italian: sacrosanto
- Portuguese: sacrossanto
- Romanian: sacrosanct
- Sicilian: sagrosantu, sagrusantu, sacrusantu
- → Maltese: sagrosant
- Spanish: sacrosanto
References
- “sacrosanctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacrosanctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacrosanctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
- the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)