sacer
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂kros (“sacred”), from *seh₂k-, *sak- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ker/, [ˈsa.kɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.t͡ʃer/, [ˈsaː.t͡ʃer], [ˈsaː.t͡ʃɛr]
Adjective[edit]
sacer m (feminine sacra, neuter sacrum); first/second declension
- Sacred, holy, dedicated to a divinity, consecrated, hallowed (translating Greek ἱερός).
- Devoted to a divinity for sacrifice, fated to destruction, forfeited, accursed.
- Divine, celestial.
- (only poetic and in post-Augustan prose) Execrable, detestable, horrible, infamous; criminal, impious, wicked, abominable, cursed.
Inflection[edit]
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | sacer | sacra | sacrum | sacrī | sacrae | sacra | |
| genitive | sacrī | sacrae | sacrī | sacrōrum | sacrārum | sacrōrum | |
| dative | sacrō | sacrō | sacrīs | ||||
| accusative | sacrum | sacram | sacrum | sacrōs | sacrās | sacra | |
| ablative | sacrō | sacrā | sacrō | sacrīs | |||
| vocative | sacer | sacra | sacrum | sacrī | sacrae | sacra | |
Synonyms[edit]
- (accursed): scelestus
- (consecrated, sacred): augustus, sānctus
- (detestable): exsecrābilis, scelestus
Antonyms[edit]
- (holy): dēfānātus
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- sacer in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sacer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sacer in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) ritual; ceremonial: sacra, res divinae, religiones, caerimoniae
- (ambiguous) to sacrifice: sacra, sacrificium facere (ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), sacrificare
- (ambiguous) to profane sacred rites: sacra polluere et violare
- (ambiguous) ritual; ceremonial: sacra, res divinae, religiones, caerimoniae
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 532