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Latin word sacer comes from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-

*seh₂k- (Proto-Indo-European)

*sh₂krós (Proto-Indo-European)

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).

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