sacrilegium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈle.ɡi.um/, [s̠äkrɪˈɫ̪ɛɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.kriˈle.d͡ʒi.um/, [säkriˈlɛːd͡ʒium]

Noun

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

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).

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
• sacrilegē
• sacrilegus
• sacrō
• sacrōsanctus
• sacrum

Descendants

• Asturian: sacrilexu
• Catalan: sacrilegi
• English: sacrilege
• French: sacrilège
• Friulian: sacrilegji
• Galician: sacrilexio
• Italian: sacrilegio
• Occitan: sacrilègi
• Piedmontese: sacrilegi
• Portuguese: sacrilégio
• Romanian: sacrilegiu
• Spanish: sacrilegio

References

• “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