different between sacre vs panic

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sacren, sakeren, from Old French sacrer (“to hallow”), from Latin sacr? (“to make sacred, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”).

Verb

sacre (third-person singular simple present sacres, present participle sacring, simple past and past participle sacred)

1. (obsolete) To consecrate
   • c.1382-1395, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe), Exodus 28:41,

     And thou schalt clothe Aaron, thi brother, with alle these, and hise sones with hym. And thou schalt sacre the hondis of alle; and thou schalt halewe hem, that thei be set in preesthood to me.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night,

     And I purpose this night to sacre you all with the Holy Incense.

   • 1911, Aix-la-Chapelle, article in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica,

     From the coronation of Louis the Pious in 813 until that of Ferdinand I. in 1531 the sacring of the German kings took place at Aix, and as many as thirty-two emperors and kings were here crowned.

Etymology 2

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. Alternative form of saker (“type of cannon”)

Anagrams

• CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, scare, serac, sérac

French

Etymology

From sacrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak?/

Noun

sacre m (plural sacres)

1. coronation
2. (Quebec) swear word, curse

Verb

sacre

1. inflection of sacrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, scare

Italian

Adjective

sacre

1. feminine plural of sacro

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French sacree and sacre. Probably influenced by Old French sacré, past participle of Old French sacrer.

Alternative forms

• sacri, sakare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kre?/

Adjective

sacr?

1. sacred

Noun

sacr? (plural sacres)

1. A religious festival
2. A consecration, especially the coronation of a monarch

Etymology 2

From Old French sacre, sagre.

Alternative forms

• sagre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?kr?/, /?sa?k?r/

Noun

sacre (plural sacres)

1. A saker falcon, especially a female

Derived terms

• sacrette

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.kre]

Adjective

sacre f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of sacru

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæn?k/
• Rhymes: -æn?k

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.

Alternative forms

• panick (obsolete)

Adjective

panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
2. Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:

     All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:

     At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.

   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

     Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.

Noun

panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)

1. Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.

   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2

     With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

2. (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
3. (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)

1. (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
2. (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
3. (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
4. (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.

Translations

Related terms

• panicky

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Noun

panic

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.

Synonyms

• panicgrass, panic grass

Anagrams

• cap'in, incap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa??t?s]
• Hyphenation: pa?nic

Noun

panic m anim (feminine panna)

1. male virgin

Declension

Related terms

• panna f
• pán m
• paní f

Further reading

• panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin panicum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.nik/

Noun

panic m (plural panics)

1. (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass

Synonyms

• pied-de-coq
• patte de poule
• crête de coq

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?it?s/

Noun

panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. male virgin

Declension

Derived terms

• panický
• panicky
• panickos?, panictvo

Related terms

• panna f

Further reading

• panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk