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Italian word sacerdote comes from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-, and later Latin sacerdos (Priest, priestess, cleric.)
*seh₂k- (Proto-Indo-European)
*sh₂krós (Proto-Indo-European)
*sakros (Proto-Italic)
sacer (Latin)
(only poetic and in post-Augustan prose) Execrable, detestable, horrible, infamous; criminal, impious, wicked, abominable, cursed.. Devoted to a divinity for sacrifice, fated to destruction, forfeited, accursed.. Divine, celestial.. Sacred, holy, dedicated to a divinity, consecrated, hallowed (translating Greek ἱερός).
sacerdos (Latin)
Priest, priestess, cleric.
sacerdote (Italian)
Priest, clergyman.