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Latin word sacrificium comes from Latin facio, Latin sacer, and later Latin sacrifico (I make or offer a sacrifice; I sacrifice.)

facio (Latin)

I appoint.. I do. I make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect. I make, produce, compose.

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).

sacrifico (Latin)

I make or offer a sacrifice; I sacrifice.

sacrificus (Latin)

(of those sacrificing or praying) Mindful of sacrifices or of religion; prayerful, religious.. Of or pertaining to sacrificing, sacrificial.

sacrificium (Latin)

Something made sacred or given to a deity, sacrifice.

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