sagrosantu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• sagrusantu, sacrusantu

Etymology

From Latin sacrōsanctus. Compare Italian sacrosanto. By surface analysis, sagru +‎ santu.

Adjective

sagrosantu (feminine singular sagrosanta, masculine and feminine plural sagrosanti)

1. sacrosanct

Descendants

• → Maltese: sagrosant

References

• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “sagrosantu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 317
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “sagrusantu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3542