sacrilegium

== Latin == === Etymology === Derived from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sa.krɪˈɫɛ.ɡi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sa.kriˈlɛː.d͡ʒi.um] === Noun === sacrilegium n (genitive sacrilegiī or sacrilegī); second declension The robbing of a temple, stealing of sacred objects, sacrilege. Violation of sacred things, profanation, sacrilege. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sacrilegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "sacrilegium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “sacrilegium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “sacrilegium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “sacrilegium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin