Etymology

sacrilegious

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Today it means: Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred. Full definition →

Latin sacer
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  1. Latin · derived fromsacer
  2. English todaysacrilegious

Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (“steal something sacred”).

Words from the same roots

Latinsacer all →

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