sacrilegium

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Etymology[edit]

Derived from sacrilegus (sacrilegious) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix).

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Noun[edit]

sacrilegium n (genitive sacrilegiī or sacrilegī); second declension

  1. The robbing of a temple, stealing of sacred objects, sacrilege.
  2. Violation of sacred things, profanation, sacrilege.

Declension[edit]

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).

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References[edit]

  • 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