The story
- Latin · derived fromsacrō“hallow, consecrate”
- Ecclesiastical Latin · derived fromsacrāmentum“sacrament”
- Old French · derived fromsacrement
- Middle English · inherited fromsacrament
- English todaysacrament
From Middle English sacrament, from Old French sacrement, from Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum (“sacrament”), from Latin sacrō (“hallow, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), originally sum deposited by parties to a suit.
Words from the same roots
Latinsacrō all →
sacre
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.