Latin word sacrificium comes from Latin facio, Latin sacer, and later Latin sacrifico (I make or offer a sacrifice; I sacrifice.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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facio | Latin (lat) | I appoint.. I do. I make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect. I make, produce, compose. |
sacer | Latin (lat) | (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). |
sacrifico | Latin (lat) | I make or offer a sacrifice; I sacrifice. |
sacrificus | Latin (lat) | (of those sacrificing or praying) Mindful of sacrifices or of religion; prayerful, religious.. Of or pertaining to sacrificing, sacrificial. |
sacrificium | Latin (lat) | Something made sacred or given to a deity, sacrifice. |