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sacrifice
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrific? (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faci? (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæk??fa?s/
- Hyphenation: sac?ri?fice
Verb
sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)
- Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.
- “God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- 1857, George Eliot, s:Scenes of Clerical Life
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum […] for the sake of […] making this boy his heir.
- 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)
- (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
- To destroy; to kill.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to offer to a deity): Molochize
- (to sell without profit): sell at a loss
Derived terms
- sacrificial
Translations
Noun
sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)
- The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
- Something sacrificed.
- A loss of profit.
- (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sacrificium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.k?i.fis/
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
sacrifice m (plural sacrifices)
- sacrifice
Related terms
- sacrificiel
- sacrifier
Further reading
- “sacrifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
sacrifice
- vocative masculine singular of sacrificus
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sa?krifit??e]
Verb
sacrifice
- third-person singular present subjunctive of sacrifica
- third-person plural present subjunctive of sacrifica
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penalty
English
Alternative forms
- pœnalty (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French pénalité
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n?lti/
- Hyphenation: pen?al?ty
Noun
penalty (plural penalties)
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- In sports
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
Synonyms
- punition
- punishment
- sentence
Derived terms
Related terms
- penal
- penality (rare)
- penalize
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (balanti)
- ? Spanish: penalti
Translations
See also
- free kick
Anagrams
- a-plenty, aplenty, netplay
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pe?nal?ty
Noun
penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)
- penalty kick
French
Alternative forms
- pénalty
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.nal.ti/
Noun
penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)
- (sports) penalty, penalty kick
Further reading
- “penalty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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