sacrificium

Latin

Etymology

Deverbal noun from sacrum (“religious act, rite, sacrifice”) +‎ faciō (“do, make”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix). Related to sacrificō (“to sacrifice”) and sacrificus (“sacrificial”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈfi.ki.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [säkriˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

sacrificium n (genitive sacrificiī or sacrificī); second declension

1. Something made sacred or given to a deity, sacrifice.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sacrificium	sacrificia
Genitive	sacrificiī sacrificī1	sacrificiōrum
Dative	sacrificiō	sacrificiīs
Accusative	sacrificium	sacrificia
Ablative	sacrificiō	sacrificiīs
Vocative	sacrificium	sacrificia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (sacrifice): hostia

Related terms

Related terms

• sacer
• sacerdōs
• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtium
• sacerdōtula
• sacrāmentālis
• sacrāmentum
• sacrārium
• sacrārius
• sacrātē
• sacrātiō
• sacrātor
• sacricola
• sacrifer
• sacrificālis
• sacrificātiō
• sacrificātor
• sacrificātus
• sacrificiolus
• sacrificō
• sacrificulus
• sacrificus
• sacrilegē
• sacrilegium
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsānctus
• sacrum

Descendants

• → Catalan: sacrifici
• → Old French: sacrifice
  • Middle French: sacrifice
    • French: sacrifice
  • → Middle English: sacrifice, sacrifise
    • English: sacrifice
• → Italian: sacrificio
• → Piedmontese: sacrifissi
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: sacrifiçio
  • Galician: sacrificio
  • Portuguese: sacrifício
• → Romanian: sacrificiu
• → Old Spanish: sacrificio
  • Spanish: sacrificio

References

• “sacrificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacrificium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacrificium 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)
• sacrificium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sacrifice: sacra, sacrificium facere (ἱερὰ ῥέζειν), sacrificare
    
  • a periodically recurring (annual) sacrifice: sacrificium statum (solemne) (Tusc. 1. 47. 113)
    
• “sacrificium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sacrificium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin