sacrifício
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See also: sacrificio
Galician
Noun
sacrifício m (plural sacrifícios, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of sacrificio
References
- “sacrifício” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sacrifiçio, sacrifiço, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificō (“to sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred”) + faciō (“do, make”). Displaced Old Portuguese sacrifiço.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧cri‧fí‧ci‧o
Noun
sacrifício m (plural sacrifícios)
- (religion) sacrifice (something sacrificed)
- (religion) sacrification (act of sacrificing)
- (figurative) ordeal (painful or trying experience)
- (Christianity, theology) the crucifixion of Jesus
Hyponyms
- (sacrification): imolação, holocausto
Related terms
Further reading
- “sacrifício” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “sacrifício”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “sacrifício”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024