sacro

Learned borrowing from Latin sacer, sacrum. Cf. also the inherited sagro.

sacro (feminine sacra, masculine plural sacros, feminine plural sacras)

1. sacred

   Synonym: sagrado

sacro m (plural sacros)

1. (anatomy) sacrum

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kro/
• Rhymes: -akro
• Hyphenation: sà‧cro

From Latin sacrum, from Proto-Italic *sakros, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós, derived from the root *seh₂k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).

• sagro (obsolete)

sacro (feminine sacra, masculine plural sacri, feminine plural sacre)

1. sacred

• sacrale

sacro (feminine sacra, masculine plural sacri, feminine plural sacre)

1. (literary, rare) Synonym of sacrato, past participle of sacrare

• sacro¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Late Latin ōs sacrum, calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸν ὀστέον (hieròn ostéon, “big bone”), with influence from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”).

sacro (invariable)

1. Only used in osso sacro

sacro m (plural sacri)

1. (anatomy) sacrum

   Synonym: osso sacro

• sacro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Probably from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr), with influence from sacro (“sacred”).

• sagro

sacro m (plural sacri)

1. saker falcon (Falco cherrug)

   Hypernym: falco

• sacro³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Carso, corsa, scaro, scora, sorca

From sacer (“sacred, holy, sacrificial, doomed”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kroː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.kro/,

sacrō (present infinitive sacrāre, perfect active sacrāvī, supine sacrātum); first conjugation

1. to declare or set apart as sacred; consecrate, dedicate, hallow or devote; sanctify, enshrine

   Synonyms: dēdicō, dicō, addīcō, cōnsecrō, sanciō, voveō

   Antonym: exaugurō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.200–201:

     vigilemque sacrāverat ignem, / excubiās dīvom aeternās .

     had consecrated ever-burning fire and eternal sentries of the gods .
     (See: Iarbas.)

2. to doom or devote to destruction, declare accursed, condemn
3. (of a deity) to hold, worship or honor as sacred
4. (by extension) to render imperishable, deify, immortalize

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

sacrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sacer

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sacrāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 37

• “sacro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• sacro in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Borrowed from Latin sacrum (“holy”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).

• Rhymes: -akɾu
• Hyphenation: sa‧cro

sacro (feminine sacra, masculine plural sacros, feminine plural sacras)

1. sacred

   Synonyms: sagrado, santo, venerável

sacro m (plural sacros)

1. sacrum (bone)

• osso

Borrowed from Latin sacrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsakɾo/
• Rhymes: -akɾo
• Syllabification: sa‧cro

sacro (feminine sacra, masculine plural sacros, feminine plural sacras, superlative sacratísimo)

1. sacred

   Synonyms: sagrado, santo

2. (anatomy) sacral (of the sacrum)

sacro m (plural sacros)

1. (anatomy) sacrum

• “sacro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28