sacrificium

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Etymology

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    Deverbal[1] noun from sacrum (religious act, rite, sacrifice) +‎ faciō (do, make) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix). Related to sacrificō (to sacrifice) and sacrificus (sacrificial).

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    Noun

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    sacrificium n (genitive sacrificiī or sacrificī); second declension

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

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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    References

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    • 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
    1. ^ Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 3.2.3 Synthetic compounds in -ium, page 75