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Old Polish
Etymology
Possibly a calque of Old Czech svatokrádečstvo. By surface analysis, święty + -o- + kraść + -stwo. First attested in the 15th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɕfjæ̃tɔkrat͡sstfɔ/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɕfjæ̃tɔkrat͡sstfɔ/
Noun
świętokradzstwo n
- (hapax, religion) sacrilege (theft of sacred and ecclesiastical items)
- Synonym: świętokradziectwo
1977 [XV med.], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Polskie glosy w rękopisie Kroniki Wincentego Kadłubka, page 146:Asserunt sacrilegium, gl. ablacionem rei sacre swyatokraczstwo, a se delclinari- [Asserunt sacrilegium, gl. ablacionem rei sacre świętokradzstwo, a se delclinari]
Descendants
References
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(świętokradztwo) świętokradzstwo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN