sacrilegium
Latin
Etymology
Derived from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) + -ium (nominalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sa.kriˈle.ɡi.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈɫ̪ɛɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sa.kriˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [säkriˈlɛːd͡ʒium]
Noun
sacrilegium n (genitive sacrilegiī or sacrilegī); second declension
- The robbing of a temple, stealing of sacred objects, sacrilege.
- Violation of sacred things, profanation, sacrilege.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sacrilegium | sacrilegia |
| Genitive | sacrilegiī sacrilegī1 |
sacrilegiōrum |
| Dative | sacrilegiō | sacrilegiīs |
| Accusative | sacrilegium | sacrilegia |
| Ablative | sacrilegiō | sacrilegiīs |
| Vocative | sacrilegium | sacrilegia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: sacrilexu
- Catalan: sacrilegi
- English: sacrilege
- French: sacrilège
- Friulian: sacrilegji
- Galician: sacrilexio
- Italian: sacrilegio
- Occitan: sacrilègi
- Piedmontese: sacrilegi
- Portuguese: sacrilégio
- Spanish: sacrilegio
References
- “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacrilegium 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)
- sacrilegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sacrilegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sacrilegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin