sacrosanctus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the ablative of sacrum (“holy, sacred object, place or act”) +‎ sānctus (“consecrated, sacred”). Both elements ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“to make a pact; to make sacred”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sacrōsānctus (feminine sacrōsāncta, neuter sacrōsānctum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. inaugurated or consecrated with religious ceremonies
  2. fixed or decreed as inviolable, sacred, sacrosanct
  3. (by extension) most holy, sacred or venerable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sacrōsānctus sacrōsāncta sacrōsānctum sacrōsānctī sacrōsānctae sacrōsāncta
genitive sacrōsānctī sacrōsānctae sacrōsānctī sacrōsānctōrum sacrōsānctārum sacrōsānctōrum
dative sacrōsānctō sacrōsānctae sacrōsānctō sacrōsānctīs
accusative sacrōsānctum sacrōsānctam sacrōsānctum sacrōsānctōs sacrōsānctās sacrōsāncta
ablative sacrōsānctō sacrōsānctā sacrōsānctō sacrōsānctīs
vocative sacrōsāncte sacrōsāncta sacrōsānctum sacrōsānctī sacrōsānctae sacrōsāncta

Descendants

All are (partially adapted) borrowings.

References

  • “sacrosanctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sacrosanctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sacrosanctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
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