sacer
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sākris (“sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ker/, [ˈs̠äkɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.t͡ʃer/, [ˈsäːt͡ʃer]
Adjective
sacer (feminine sacra, neuter sacrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- 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
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (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
- (accursed): scelestus
- (consecrated, sacred): augustus, sānctus
- (detestable): exsecrābilis, scelestus
Antonyms
- (holy): dēfānātus
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Descendants
References
- “sacer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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, →ISBN, page 532
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