different between sacred vs aureola

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

English

Alternative forms

• aureole

Etymology

From Latin aurea (“golden”).

Noun

aureola (plural aureolas or aureolae)

1. Radiance of luminous cloud that surrounds the figure in a painting of a sacred personage.

Usage notes

• Distinct from the nimbus, which only covers the head.
• Not to be confused with areola.

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw?r?.o.la/

Noun

aureola f (plural aureole)

1. halo
2. aureole
3. aura

Latin

Adjective

aureola

1. nominative feminine singular of aureolus
2. nominative neuter plural of aureolus
3. accusative neuter plural of aureolus
4. vocative feminine singular of aureolus
5. nominative neuter plural of aureolus

Adjective

aureol?

1. ablative feminine singular of aureolus

References

• aureola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin aureola (corona) ("golden (crown)").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.wr???.la/

Noun

aureola f (diminutive aureolka)

1. halo, nimbus
2. aureole (circle of light or halo around the head of a saint)

   Synonym: nimb

Declension

Further reading

• aureola in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• aureola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

aureola

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of aureolar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of aureolar

Romanian

Etymology

From French auréoler.

Verb

a aureola (third-person singular present aureoleaz?, past participle aureolat) 1st conj.

1. to surround with a halo
2. to glorify

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aur?ola/
• Hyphenation: a?u?re?o?la

Noun

aurèola f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. aureola, halo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin [Term?].

Noun

aureola f (plural aureolas)

1. halo (luminous disc around the heads of saints)
2. (anatomy) areola

   Synonym: areola

3. (astronomy) corona

Derived terms

• aureolar

Further reading

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