sacer

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sacer m. (feminine sacra, neuter sacrum); first/second declension

  1. Sacred, holy, dedicated to a divinity, consecrated, hallowed (translating Greek ἱερός).
    • c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Menaechmi, 5.5.38
      at ego te sacram coronam surrupuisse Iovi scio
      And I know that you stole the sacred crown of Jupiter.
  2. Devoted to a divinity for sacrifice, fated to destruction, forfeited, accursed.
    • c. 29-19 BCE — Virgil, Aeneid, 3.56
      quid non mortalia pectora cogis / auri sacra fames
      Accursed hunger for gold, what do you not compel the hearts of men to do!
  3. Divine, celestial.
    • c. 29-19 BCE — Virgil, Aeneid, 8.591
      / extulit os sacrum caelo tenebrasque resoluit /
    lifts to the skies his countenance divine, and melts the shadows of the night away.
  4. (only poetic and in post-Augustan (Silver Age Latin) prose) Execrable, detestable, horrible, infamous; criminal, impious, wicked, abominable, cursed.
    • c. 254-184 BCE — Plautus, Bacchides, 4.6.14
      ego sum malus ego sum sacer scelestus
      I am a bad one, I am a cursed one--a wicked one.

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
Case \ Gender M. F. N. MM. FF. NN.
nominative sacer sacra sacrum sacrī sacrae sacra
genitive sacrī sacrae sacrī sacrōrum sacrārum sacrōrum
dative sacrō sacrae sacrō sacrīs sacrīs sacrīs
accusative sacrum sacram sacrum sacrōs sacrās sacra
ablative sacrō sacrā sacrō sacrīs sacrīs sacrīs
vocative sacer sacra sacrum sacrī sacrae sacra

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  • “sacer” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
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