sacrilege

See also: sacrilège

English

Alternative forms

• sacriledge (obsolete)

Etymology

Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. Borrowed from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy”)) + legō (“gather; take, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- and *leǵ-. Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.

Unrelated to religion, which is ultimately from ligō (“I tie, bind, or bandage”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

sacrilege (usually uncountable, plural sacrileges)

1. Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

Derived terms

• sacrilegious

Translations

desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something sacred

• Arabic: تَدْنِيس‎ m (tadnīs), تَرْجِيس‎ m (tarjīs)
• Asturian: sacrilexu m
• Catalan: sacrilegi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冒瀆 (zh), 冒渎 (zh) (màodú)

• Czech: svatokrádež (cs) m
• Danish: helligbrøde c
• Dutch: heiligschennis (nl)
• Esperanto: sakrilegio
• Finnish: pyhäinhäväistys
• French: sacrilège (fr) m
• Galician: sacrilexio m
• German: Sakrileg (de) n
• Greek: ιεροσυλία (el) f (ierosylía)

  Ancient: ἱεροσυλία f (hierosulía)

• Hungarian: szentségtörés (hu)
• Ido: sakrilejo (io)
• Indonesian: sakrilegi (id)
• Italian: sacrilegio (it) m
• Japanese: 冒涜 (ja) (ぼうとく, bōtoku)
• Latin: sacrilegium n
• Macedonian: сквернавење (skvernavenje)
• Occitan: sacrilègi m
• Polish: świętokradztwo n, profanacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sacrilégio (pt) m
• Russian: кощу́нство (ru) n (koščúnstvo), святота́тство (ru) n (svjatotátstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: светогрђе n

  Roman: svetogrđe (sh) n

• Spanish: sacrilegio m
• Swedish: helgerån (sv) n, skändlighet c, hädelse (sv) c
• Ukrainian: святота́тство n (svjatotátstvo), блюзнірство (uk) n (bljuznirstvo)

Anagrams

• Gilcrease

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Latin

Etymology

From sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

sacrilegē (not comparable)

1. sacrilegiously, impiously

Synonyms

• (impiously): irreligiōsē, nefāriē

Related terms

Related terms

• sacer
• sacerdōs
• sacerdōtālis
• sacerdōtium
• sacerdōtula
• sacrāmentālis
• sacrāmentum

• sacrārium
• sacrārius
• sacrātē
• sacrātiō
• sacrātor
• sacricola
• sacrifer

• sacrificālis
• sacrificātiō
• sacrificātor
• sacrificātus
• sacrificiolus
• sacrificium
• sacrificō

• sacrificulus
• sacrificus
• sacrilegium
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsanctus
• sacrum

References

• sacrilege in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sacrilege in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]

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Old French

Etymology

First attested at the end of the 12th century, borrowed from Latin sacrilegium.

Noun

sacrilege m (oblique plural sacrileges, nominative singular sacrileges, nominative plural sacrilege)

1. sacrilege

Descendants

• English: sacrilege
• French: sacrilège