different between sacral vs sacred

English

Etymology

From Modern Latin sacralis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) +? -alis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?k??l/, /?sæk??l/

Adjective

sacral (comparative more sacral, superlative most sacral)

1. (anatomy) Of the sacrum.
2. Sacred.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sacral (plural sacrals)

1. Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.

Further reading

• sacral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sacral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Claars, Rascal, craals, lascar, rascal, sarlac, scalar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.k?al/
• Homophones: sacrale, sacrales

Adjective

sacral (feminine singular sacrale, masculine plural sacraux, feminine plural sacrales)

1. sacral (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “sacral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• raclas

Romanian

Etymology

From French sacral.

Adjective

sacral m or n (feminine singular sacral?, masculine plural sacrali, feminine and neuter plural sacrale)

1. sacral

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?k?al/, [sa?k?al]

Adjective

sacral (plural sacrales)

1. sacral (sacred)

   Synonyms: sagrado, sacro

Further reading

• “sacral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sacred, isacred, past participle of sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), from Old French sacrer (“to consecrate, anoint, dedicate”), from Latin sacr?re, present active infinitive of sacr?, from sacer (“sacred, holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?krós (“sacred”), from *seh?k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?k??d/

Adjective

sacred (comparative more sacred or sacreder, superlative most sacred or sacredest)

1. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
   • 1882, Edward Shortland, Maori Religion and Mythology

     In doing this I particularly instructed my informant to tell his tale as if he were relating it to his own people, and to use the same words that he would use if he were recounting similar tales to them when assembled in a sacred house.

   • 1955, anonymous, The Urantia Book : The Time of the Tomb:

     The cross is that high symbol of sacred service, the devotion of one's life to the welfare and salvation of one's fellows. The cross is not the symbol of the sacrifice of the innocent Son of God in the place of guilty sinners and in order to appease the wrath of an offended God, but it does stand forever, on earth and throughout a vast universe, as a sacred symbol of the good bestowing themselves upon the evil and thereby saving them by this very devotion of love.

   • November 30 2016, Joe Whittle writing in The Guardian, 'We opened eyes': at Standing Rock, my fellow Native Americans make history

     Their intent was to march peacefully down a county road to DAPL headquarters, where tribal elders would pray and hold ceremony to bless the sacred sites being disturbed by pipeline construction.

   Synonyms: consecrated, hallowed

2. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
3. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
4. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
5. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.

   Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct

6. (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted

   Synonym: consecrated

7. (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Synonyms

• divine
• godly
• holy

Antonyms

• cursed
• damned
• profane
• unholy
• ungodly

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?k?d/

Verb

sacred

1. simple past tense and past participle of sacre

Anagrams

• Cerdas, Dacres, Des Arc, caders, cadres, cedars, crased, decars, e-cards, ecards, scared